More Than A Hike is a journal written during my time on the Appalachian Trail. Within its pages lay my thoughts, feelings, struggles, and...

My room seems smaller than normal, the walls feel like they are closing around me. I’ve never been claustrophobic, but today I understand...

I don’t think dad believes I am going to make it very far on the trail. We are at the Cabin (our family has a rustic log cabin on 20...

1st Day of the AT!!! It’s somehow even more beautiful than I imagined it would be! The woods of Vermont are awesome like that. We started...

We just stopped hiking, hopefully for the day. I’m VERY happy about that. Around noon I started to get some really bad chafing in the ass...

Okay, so maybe 16 miles doesn’t seem like much to you, but you are probably used to driving to a restaurant some evenings, or maybe...

People are amazing out here. So happy and gracious, I haven’t met a mean one yet! It’s really refreshing and really helps to “restore...

Today started off very poorly. I was tired, and I ended up forgetting my Paracord (simple cordage which was originally created for use in...

Today we were planning to go 21 miles, our longest day yet, but on the way down from an especially annoying climb (Mount Cube) the tendon...

Wow, it’s the one-week mark for me on the trail! One full week in the woods without technology, showers, or flushing toilets! I am...