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Grand Enchantment Trail Hiker Survey – 2018

November 14, 2018 by SweetPea

Folks interested in hiking the GET often have a lot of questions.  Brett’s site has ample information, but sometimes folks want to learn specifics about another hiker’s experience.  For that reason, we posted a survey for GET hikers to complete.  … [Read more...]

Grand Enchantment Trail Photos 2018

June 11, 2018 by Beardoh

The Grand Enchantment Trail is the first real 'route' type trail that we have hiked.  Designed by Brett Tucker, the GET is a nearly 800 mile route that travels from Phoenix, Arizona to Albuquerque, New Mexico through a wide variety of terrain and … [Read more...]

Hammocking on the Grand Enchantment Trail (GET)

June 9, 2018 by SweetPea

We make no secret of the fact that we are hammockers at heart.  Before hiking the Grand Enchantment Trail, we had only slept on the ground for part of three different trails...the southernmost 500 miles of the Appalachian Trail (due to winter weather … [Read more...]

Grand Enchantment Trail (GET) – Post Hike Thoughts

June 4, 2018 by Beardoh

Reflections on the Grand Enchantment Trail (GET)After 44 hiking days, we completed The Grand Enchantment Trail on May 22nd, 2018. Below are some afterthoughts on the hike. These are both reflections as well as ideas from the trail that we knew we … [Read more...]

Grand Enchantment Trail (GET) – Resupply Plan

June 3, 2018 by SweetPea

The GET has a mix of towns which are a ways off-trail and towns which the GET goes right through. In general, resupply options are pretty well spaced so that there aren’t any really long carries. We had planned for relatively low average daily miles … [Read more...]

The Grand Enchantment Trail (GET)

March 13, 2018 by SweetPea

After a short hiking season last year (just a month on the Colorado Trail), we are eager to put on our packs and get walking.  While we aren’t sure of all our summer plans, we do know that we want to kick off the backpacking season by hiking the … [Read more...]

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