2021 was a great year for getting some hiking goals done! I wasn’t so much about reaching a specific mileage tally or total elevation gain this time. Instead, my focus was more about knocking off a few big things from my list. My biggest goal for the year was to get all lower 48 states…
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1,000,000 feet of Vert in 1 Year
Two of my hiking friends logged 1 million vertical feet in a single year — and one finished a month early. What an amazing challenge accomplished 100% on foot. We’re talking over 90,000 feet of elevation per month on average. The mileage numbers are equally impressive: 2,500 over 48 weeks is an average of 52…
Next International Plan: EBC in 2020
I’ve been seeing a lot of pictures lately of people returning from treks to Everest Base Camp. While I have no desire to summit Everest, I’ve always thought the idea of getting to its base camp would be an amazing experience all by itself. I know it would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me as…
Setting Goals Drives More Focus
Someone recently asked, how do you get in the habit of doing regular hikes? My suggestion was to set a goal. Last year, I wanted to beat my previous year’s mileage by 100. This year I set a goal to do 50 miles/month. I’ve seen others set goals for # of peaks or # of hikes…