Planning your first thru-hike? Here is how to train, pick a trail, pack the right gear, fuel your body and build in rest days ...

Whether you're planning a weekend trek or a months-long adventure, these thru-hiking tips can help you start prepared.

If you want to call it a thru-hike, you’ve got to go the whole way—start to finish—in one continuous push, which usually means a few solid months on the trail. We’re talking hundreds (sometimes ...

Whether you're a first time hiker heading out on a well-marked trail or an experienced thru-hiker planning a remote, long-distance route, a reliable navigation app is an essential part of your kit.

Dale “Grey Beard” Sanders once set the record as the oldest person to complete the roughly 2,190-mile trail. Now, he’s back ...

In 1951, always an adventurer, he was the second person to walk the trail in a “thru-hike,” from Georgia to Maine, in an arduous 123 days. He later met the first to do so. By Richard Sandomir Gene ...

I wish I had the luxury of taking two months off to embark on a major thru-hiking adventure like the Florida Trail. For now, in lieu of that, I can live vicariously through others, like my friend Greg ...