The hiker has been tentatively identified as Bert Peter Goris, a registered AT thru-hiker who had signed his name to the Hunt Trail register ...

I can only describe as delicious. My first trail was the Colorado Trail, where early-summer snow runoff gave me flowing streams and ice-cold, crystal-clear water almost the entire way. The same was ...

Stringbean” McConaughy set a new supported Fastest Known Time on California’s John Muir Trail (JMT) today, reaching the ...

Appalachian Trail thru-hike before ever leaving Springer Mountain. I had no clue what I was doing, and I could barely even lift my behemoth 41-pound pack onto the hook of the pack scale at Amicalola ...

Appalachian Trail thru-hike this year, you’ve landed on the right post! Each year, we poll the current class of AT hikers to learn the ins and outs of their on-trail experiences.  We strive to better ...

The Trek’s own AT thru-hiker surveys reveal that hikers have overwhelmingly traded heavy leather hiking boots for lightweight trail runners, and bulky mummy sleeping bags for more streamlined quilts.

Teton National Park staff euthanized a black bear last Friday after the bear displayed an escalating pattern of food-conditioned behavior. “We need to be clear—this bear was lethally removed because ...

REI has found itself at the center of a court case surrounding a January anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church. New court filings allege that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) subpoenaed the ...

Katahdin on Monday, September 14, according to Maine’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. An autopsy is underway to ...

Seventy years ago, Britain designated the Gower Peninsula as the first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The cliffs and dunes and expansive sand beaches — the grand highlights are primarily ...

A Subaru to a light rail to the Portland Airport to the Fresno Airport, and then I walked to my hotel. I walked back to the airport the next morning to get on a YARTS bus which would take me on a very ...

In today’s episode of Backpacker Radio presented by The Trek, brought to you by OnX Backcountry and Topo Athletic, we are ...