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Mather Pass - PCT 2016
Mather Pass – PCT 2016

Beardoh grew up in the midwest (Minnesota and Wisconsin) – far from any mountains.  He spent much of his time snowboarding and skateboarding – beardoh-about1no doubt skills which helped him be able to run down mountains with confidence as an adult.  After graduating from college, he joined the Peace Corps in Tanzania and served as a Geography and Math teacher in a high school…and most importantly, he met Sweetpea.  Beardoh has spent most of his professional career as an entrepreneur.  He has created and sold multiple niche e-commerce businesses and has worked as a luthier in his custom bass guitar building shop for over fifteen years.

Sweetpea grew up in rural California, where the most popular club in her high school was Future Farmers of America.  No, she wasn’t part of that “it” club, instead opting for the nerdy path of Band, Drama and Speech Club.  She spent her senior year of high school as an exchange student in West Germany, which sparked her interest in traveling.  Once she graduated from college, she joined the Peace Corps, where she taught high school Biology and Chemistry in Tanzania…and most importantly met Beardoh.

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Much of our interest in hiking  grew while in Peace Corps in TZ.  Sweetpea lived up in the mountains and Beardoh at the bottom of the same range (Usambara Range in Eastern TZ).  Both of us spent a lot of time wandering the mtns around our own places, as well as planning and leading student groups up Mt. Meru and hiking Mt. Kilimanjaro.

We were married in 1999 and have lived in New Hampshire since that time.  After several moves around the state, we settled in the White Mountains, because of the great hiking and great snowboarding in the area.  While working our full-time jobs and building our house, we have been trying to hike all forty-eight 4,000 footers in NH.  So far, we have made it up to the top of 39.  We hope to get to the other nine soon!

Once our professional lives changed and we found ourselves with more freedom and flexibility, we decided to hike our first long distance trail – The Appalachian Trail in 2011.  That experience sparked in us a love of long distance hiking.  We fell in love with the simplicity of the trail life, as well as with the interesting people we met on the trail.  Many of our very dear friends are ones that we met while hiking long distance trails.

We hope to continue expanding our experiences on the many long distance trails around the world.  Hopefully this website will inspire others to get out into nature and explore all the beauty and tranquility that the wilderness provides.

We have had the good fortune to have completed the following long distance trails:

Appalachian Trail – 2011 (SweetPea & Beardoh)
Pacific Crest Trail – 2012 (Beardoh)
Long Trail – 2013 (Beardoh)
Wonderland Trail – 2013 (Beardoh)
Tahoe Rim Trail – 2014 (SweetPea & Beardoh)
John Muir Trail – 2014 (SweetPea & Beardoh)
Wonderland Trail – 2014 (SweetPea & Beardoh)
Arizona Trail – 2015 (SweetPea & Beardoh)
Pacific Crest Trail – 2016 (SweetPea & Beardoh)
Colorado Trail – 2017 (SweetPea & Beardoh)
Mississippi River Source to Sea – 2017 *Thru Canoe (SweetPea & Beardoh)
Grand Enchantment Trail – 2018 (SweetPea & Beardoh)
Great Divide Trail – 2018 (SweetPea & Beardoh)
Tahoe Rim Trail – 2018 (SweetPea & Beardoh)
John Muir Trail – 2018 (Beardoh)
Mogollon Rim Trail – 2019 (SweetPea & Beardoh)
Continental Divide Trail – 2020/2021 (SweetPea & Beardoh)
Slovenia Mtn Trail – 2022 *not complete, but hiked all of the mountain section, which interested us (SweetPea & Beardoh)

Comments

  1. Greg Ochs says

    March 4, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    All the best to you both and I’ll be following your journey. Greg

    Reply
  2. Erik Knorr says

    March 6, 2015 at 12:28 am

    OK, so I am now following you everywhere. So have a fun and safe trip.

    Reply
    • Beardoh says

      March 14, 2015 at 2:32 pm

      Thanks Erik!

  3. Russ Mease says

    June 7, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    Beardoh! I tried to send you a message, but the captcha was not working and it wouldn’t send. Happy to see you still adventuring. My 5 year work plan is almost complete!, so hope to be out there soon. Cheers! Russ Mease (Morrissey, PCT 2012)

    Reply
  4. Sheila Pryor says

    July 28, 2021 at 10:01 am

    We love when your on a trail and we follow you with every post. You two are usually our dinner conversation for the evening. Have safe travels.

    Reply
    • SweetPea says

      August 1, 2021 at 3:12 pm

      Thanks guys! Looks like you guys had a fun trip to Idaho. Hope the rest of your summer is just as good. I’m planning to be in your area this fall…I’d love to see you guys!

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