Ultralight Hiking Blog

Turning Thru-Hiking into a Career by Renee "She-ra" Patrick

Turning Thru-Hiking into a Career by Renee "She-ra" Patrick

After five-months of joy, challenge, struggle, and laughter, I reached Canada on my 2006 PCT thru-hike determined to find a way to get paid to hike. I felt freedom and exhilaration in waking up eac...

A Family Adventure: Thru-hiking the Long Trail with kids, a dog, and no backpacking experience By Allison Korn and Marco Yunga Tacuri

A Family Adventure: Thru-hiking the Long Trail with kids, a dog, and no backpacking experience By Allison Korn and Marco Yunga Tacuri

Asha at camp, getting ready to check out the sunset This summer we learned an important lesson: regular humans can do superhuman things. We learned that by thru-hiking Vermont’s Long Trail with ou...

The Inaugural Moray Trail Twenty20 by Jim Sutherland

The Inaugural Moray Trail Twenty20 by Jim Sutherland

On the last Sunday of June six friends, family and work colleagues rode off from The Bothy Bakery, Grantown on Spey on the  inaugural Moray Trail Twenty20.  The team consisted of John Davidson a f...

2021 Philmont Reflections by Harrison DeFord

2021 Philmont Reflections by Harrison DeFord

This summer was my second season working as a Ranger at Philmont Scout Ranch, located in the northern New Mexico Rockies. My job is to take crews of 8-12 Scouts and adult advisors into the backcoun...

Haven Tent First Impressions by Adrian Redgwell

Haven Tent First Impressions by Adrian Redgwell

Testing out the pitch at home Recently, I finally received the 2p Haven tent. I have been watching a lot of videos of this very nice tent for the past few months and the wait is finally over. ...

The Story of an Average Hiker to an Almost Ultralight Hiker by Adrian Redgwell

The Story of an Average Hiker to an Almost Ultralight Hiker by Adrian Redgwell

The AT on display   I think most of us who started to seriously hike in 2015, still had a lot to learn. That is year when I heard the mountains calling.  It was the same year that the YouTube e...