Tag: hiking

A family confronts its racial past along the Appalachian Trail.

“Maybe walking into some marshes, and deciding at an undetermined future point to stop walking, was what was available to the Romantics, but I think we can do better.”

“Trevor spoke to Doug…“Physically, I’m doing fine,” he said. ‘My body’s just tired because we’ve been doing 20-mile days for eight days in a row.’ It was their final conversation.”

A friendly and charming hiker was known on the trail as “Mostly Harmless.” After his body was discovered in a tent in Florida, no one could figure out who he was.

Mathina Calliope goes off her antidepressant and into the woods.

Can an American family learn to become outdoorsy in New Zealand, where the natural world is part of the national DNA? Sort of.

An infirmed Friedrich Nietzsche hiked the Swiss Alps to work on his writing. Philosopher John Kaag followed Nietzsche’s trail, taking the great thinker’s ideas out of his books and into the world.

Now what I remember most about my guide is what he said about the Rohingya. But I walked 50 kilometers with him before he said it.

When two Irish travelers take hiking advice from a supposed guide, they soon find themselves relying on their wits in the dark.

Amanda Machado adds her voice to the growing chorus of women of color claiming their place in the rugged outdoors.

“The Sacred Door Trail is a pilgrimage if enough pilgrims say it is. “

In hiking the Appalachian Trail solo as a queer black woman, Rahawa Haile wants “to be a role model to black women who are interested in the outdoors, including myself.”

Rahawa Haile writes about hiking over 2000 miles on the Appalachian Trail in 2016, and carrying with her books by black authors, which she’d leave behind for others to find at shelters along the way.

“There were a million heavenly things to see and a million spectacular ways to die.”