Day Hike on the AT: Bear Mountain Bridge to HWY 301 Cold Spring

A few months after moving to New York I started noticing a city campaign selling us city kids on hiking upstate. Online, articles about day hikes and overnight backpacking trips for New Yorkers without cars started getting a lot of traction. For day hikes: Cold Spring, Breakneck Ridge, and Beacon via Metro North; Suffern, Sloatsburg,…

A John Muir Trail Thru Hike Derailed

Before leaving for my John Muir Trail northbound thru hike attempt, I’d drafted an article to pitch to backpacking platforms about packing food and handling food resupply on trail as a celiac. Only a couple of days after starting my hike July 27th, the objective of the trip shifted. I arrived in Reno, NV on…