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Nick Fowler and Georgia Porter set FKTs on the trail by wildly different methods
From meal planning to meeting the townies, every aspiring thru-hiker should hear this hard-won advice
For most AT thru-hikers, Katahdin is the finish line. For Will French, it was the halfway point on a 25-year, 4,320-mile journey along the prehistoric spine of the Appalachians.
Three years ago, Danae and Olen Netteburg set out with their four kids on the Appalachian Trail. Three years (and one more baby) later, theyre about to complete the Triple Crown. All of them.
A lot of what thru-hikers eat on the trail is far from good for you. But some nutrition-minded backpackers are trying to buck the trend.
Most of this years PCT class is skipping the snowbound Sierra. A small group of adventurers is pushing straight through.