Tag: Trail

Home to the world’s oldest annual marathon, Boston is a city of runners. Rain or shine you can catch them passing through the Common, jogging along the Charles River and sprinting up Beacon Hill. But there’s more to beantown running than pavement and cobblestones. The Middlesex Fells ...

Section 5 means something different to me than all the other trials of Taipei Grand Trail. This is a journey carrying memories and reflections of life. The first and most important spot to stop by in this section is the Old Place Plane-Spotting Platform, a spot with a great view of airc...

All of a sudden this wall next to us ended and the trail just stopped. Well, it didn’t stop, it dropped off a hundred-meter steep cliff filled with loose rock. But behind it was this beautiful glacier-fed lake with icebergs inside tumbling around. Just after walking the popular Hooker ...

Gradient percentages of up to 50% on extremely technical trails, slippery snowfields, howling wolves, and brown bears. These are all things you can encounter during the Transylvania 100, an ultra-trail of over 100 kilometers with about 6500 meters of elevation gain through the beautiful Transylvania...

Let’s get right to point: this trail is anything but easy. With 11+ miles, over 3,000 ft cumulative elevation gain, rough terrain, heavy pack, stream crossings, ledges, heat, rain, and plenty of other small and big challenges, it’s not for the unprepared and fainthearted. This is not a l...

If you heard that there was a 75% chance you would fail miserably, would you bother trying? That’s what’s so odd to me about Appalachian Trail (A.T.) thru-hikers. Many start out knowing that about 75% of the people who try to thru-hike 2,000+ miles of the A.T. in one year end up quitt...

The Highline Trail is a very popular hike in Glacier National Park, Montana. The trailhead is across the road from the parking lot at Logan’s Pass, which get full by 8am !! Logan Pass is also the location where you can hike up to the Hidden Lake overlook ….. and Hidden Lake if the tr...

This is the tale of my epic 4-day journey across the Northern Ko’olau Summit Trail (KST). Before I begin, a few disclaimers. This is probably the most rugged and confusing section of the KST to navigate, as well as the least scenic, and it truly tests one’s perseverance. Due to the harsh...

In the spring of 2022, I backpacked the Arizona Trail across Arizona from Mexico to Utah. I hiked about 800 miles in 52 days. It was a great trip and I’m glad I did it. These are my notes. I’ve tried to focus on what I did on this trip or would do in the future. It’s not a guide...

In Oregon, it rains. A lot. Especially in the Willamette Valley, the green, beating heart of the state. Accessible year-round trails for those that like to hike can be hard to find. At William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge just south of Corvallis, the Woodpecker Loop Trail now offers opportunit...

The Highline Trail is a very popular hike in Glacier National Park, Montana. The trailhead is across the road from the parking lot at Logan’s Pass, which get full by 8am !! Logan Pass is also the location where you can hike up to the Hidden Lake overlook ….. and Hidden Lake if the tr...

As I was preparing for one of my expeditions last year, reading a guidebook, I came across a phrase that particularly resonated with me (paraphrasing): “The author doesn’t provide a list of equipment needed for those who choose to conquer this trail by sleeping outside the refugees, beca...

It was late one night when I chanced upon a Medium blog by Karthik. The first couple of lines captivated me to no extent — “A swing of the door of the bookshelf at home revealed a thirty-year-old treasure of my father’s. The nuggets comprised seven books of the most amazing sh...

Trail running is a fantastic way to stay fit while connecting with nature, requiring nothing more than a solid pair of trail running shoes to get started. Unlike their road-running counterparts, trail running shoes are designed with unique features like enhanced traction, waterproof materials, super...