Carving a path across North Carolina
You never realize how much it rains, until you spend all your time outside. On the days it didn’t rain, my feet were wet from a ford across the Linville River and an unsuccessful rock hop at Harper
Trail Food: Rx for a good bar
What keeps Jen fueled on her long-distance hikes? While she makes her way across North Carolina on the MST, she’ll share some of her favorite trail food. Bars are a hiker’s best friend. They offer instant energy in convenient
Run a Mile in His Brooks Cascadias: Todd Gothberg
While Jen is working her way across the state, she’ll be interviewing the people she encounters along the way. Today: Todd Gothberg of Asheville. Todd has a hint of a Yankee accent that lets you know he’s not
Karen Chávez: Hike a Mile in Her Boots
While Jen is working her way across the state, she’ll be interviewing the people she encounters along the way. Today: Karen Chávez, longtime outdoor recreation writer and editor with the Asheville Citizen-Times. Karen Chávez didn’t grow up in
Jen’s fuel for the long haul: a hard-boiled treat
What keeps Jen fueled on her long-distance hikes? While she makes her way across North Carolina, she’ll share some of her favorite trail food. This week’s trail food is a three-letter word. It is all natural, portable, inexpensive, and
Enjoying the Home Trail Advantage
In the past two weeks we have covered more than 180 miles of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. But if we were on any other path, in any other state, I doubt we would have made it this far. After
A Family Odyssey from the NC Mountains to the Coast
Note: Karen Chavez, outdoors writer with the Asheville Citizen-Times, is writing a series of articles about Jennifer Pharr Davis and family's hike across the state on the MST. Start here, then click "Read more" for the full article.
A week of living in the moment — many moments
Our first week on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail has been filled with MORE than I anticipated. More great views, more mushrooms, more climbs, more rain, more miles, more hardship, and most of all more emotion. I’d forgotten that it’s
