How to eat on a longer thru-hike
This is part one of coverage to this topic, more to come as soon as I have found a feasible solution to get enough healthy calories per day… How you eat on a hike and what you eat will most likel…
Blog & updates from the wild
CYTC 2021 – financing my next holidays?
Are you crazy? Yes, I do think so. However, I am not exactly a society drop-out, living under a bridge because I can’t reintegrate. Since 2015 I built up some experience in serious long-distanc…
What is a CYTC?
Calendar Year Triple Crown – 7800 miles or 12’000 km through the US in one year There are three long-distance hiking paths in the US: Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and Continent…
INT : Jerusalem to Arad & thoughts
From Jerusalem I went to Arad. In total I walked more than 600 km (370 miles) through Israel but I didn’t venture into the Negev Desert. There you could walk additional 500 km. Unfortunatel…
INT: Kibbutz Dan to Jerusalem
This trail is hard. Really hard. If you don’t get roasted by the sun or run out of water, there are enough memorials along the way, who will made you really depressed. Go to a bus station, an inter…
What about packs?
Before you set out to REI or pay hundreds of dollars in the internet just for the promise that somebody somewhere may eventually stitch together a geeked out pack for you and for you only (one off), y…
About water filtration in 2019
As I have travelled more than 1700 miles on the PCT in the summer of 2018, I am able to give some first-hand experience in terms of water purification on the PCT. I wasn’t in the dessert down south …
PCT 2018: Day 4
29 July 2018 I sleep horrible. I am not 100 % used to sleep in the outdoors, there is a stream near by that makes noice and potentially aggressive deer can be spotted, they circle around my camp. …