by Collin Stuart Chambers
Déjà Vu on the Appalachian Trail: What three section hikers taught me about perseverance, trail magic, and squeeze cheese. After my Sunday Trail Ambassador patrol on Max Patch, I did what any reasonable person would do after eight hours of hiking around and around the...
by Collin Stuart Chambers
A reflection… The first proof copy of my latest book arrived yesterday. I stopped by the mailbox on my way home last night, knowing the package was in there, waiting for me to get home. There is a good bit of, shall we say, “off road travel,” through...
by Collin Stuart Chambers
Sir, Your Quads Are on Fire Because You hiked 30 Miles in the Smokies Yesterday I met an Appalachian Trail thru-hiker at the Cosby Knob Shelter a few weeks ago who was genuinely puzzled. His feet, he explained with the bewildered sincerity of someone reporting a minor...
by Collin Stuart Chambers
The year was 2000. I spent Y2K with a group of friends I met in a hiking club in Atlanta, camped at Lake Hartwell, waiting to find out whether we were witnessing the dawn of a new era or the collapse of civilization as we knew it. January 1st rolled around. We were...
by Collin Stuart Chambers
There’s nothing quite like walking up on a refreshing gurgling spring on a hot summer’s day, eagerly drinking after sweating through miles of trail. But what about in the dead of winter, when you’re so chilly you’re moving just fast enough to...
