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The third bonus episode of The Source Material, and the one the series has been building toward since Episode One of the documentary. In April 2024, ...

In Part 2, Shane Weigand gets into what it actually takes to run New Mexico Pack Burros as a going concern while holding down a full-time federal job ...

Most backpackers obsess over ounces. Shane Weigand measures his pack weight in burros. Shane is the founder of New Mexico Pack Burros — guiding wilder...

Christine Reed found the Appalachian Trail on a blog she stumbled across at a desk job in Arkansas, and within minutes she'd walked into her mother's ...

Shane Weigand came to New Mexico from Montana with zero stock experience, tried to get a llama, met a llama, and bought a burro off Craigslist instead...

The second bonus episode of The Source Material, the complete archive from The Barkley: A Love Story. Forty people enter the Barkley Marathons each y...

In Part 2, Last Strap gets into the PCT itself — and the thing that made it harder than it had to be. His biggest fear going into the trail was someth...

Will Roquemore goes by Last Strap on the trail — a name handed to him by a friend who instituted a rule that he was not allowed to partake in any extr...

HTR Trail Correspondent Austen Goring stepped onto the PCT at Campo with a plan, a heavy pack, and every intention of walking to Canada. Seven days an...

Will Roquemore goes by Last Strap on the trail, a name earned before the PCT even started, handed to him by a friend who instituted a rule that he was...

This is the first bonus episode of The Source Material, the complete archive from The Barkley: A Love Story, a three-part audio documentary from Hiker...

What if the reason hiking feels harder after 50 has nothing to do with age? Lori Balue is a functional diagnostic nutrition and metabolic restoration ...