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The 2024 Pacific Crest Trail hiker survey is out, and its data will interest long-distance backpackers. Halfway Anywhere, a blog run by long-distance athlete Tyler Fox, compiles the annual survey (now ...
Roaring Fork Valley’s Shayla Paradeis, known on the trail as “Kiddo,” has earned her place among long-distance hiking’s most intrepid adventurers. Paradeis has traversed thousands of miles on foot, ...
To say that long-distance hiking has blown up since Backpacker started publishing would be the mother of all understatements. In 1973, the year our first issue went out, just 8 people completed the ...
Not all dreams deferred shrivel and fade in the sun—some snowball through the decades to explode in a beautiful realization. At least that’s the case for many hikers who pursue their long-trail dreams ...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — The 2,197-mile Appalachian Trail, which runs from Georgia to Maine, celebrated its centennial in March. FOX43 featured the history of the trail and how hikers and other ...