In this article I'm going to cover some of the best ways to visit Cuyahoga Valley National Park in one day. As a local Clevelander and someone who has both cycled and hiked across the United States I have a good sense of some of the rare attributes of this park compared to the others. The rarest attribute is the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad which can be taken as a roundtrip through Valley or as a one way trip for cyclists, hikers, or even kayakers to get a ride back to their car.
Ten months after finishing my thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, I made my return to the mountains, if only for a weekend, to hike Mount Katahdin via Knife Edge in Baxter State Park, Maine.
Over 90% of thru-hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail pick-up at least one resupply package on their hike.In 2016 I continuously thru-hiked the PCTl without any re-supply boxes. In this video I review my experience of buying all the food, shoes, and gear I needed along the way.
There was more danger at the finish than perhaps understood by those that followed the blog. By all accounts I've come across, I was the last to finish. One other hiker behind me has yet to be found.
On April Fool's Day 2016 (age 26) I quit my engineering job in my home state of Ohio, drove to San Diego, and sold my car when I got there. For the six months that followed, I hiked 2,650 continuous miles between the U.S. border of Mexico and the U.S. border of Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT).
When I reached the U.S. border of Canada on Monday October 24, I had been walking for six months. The walk that started at the U.S. border of Mexico (April 24) was so vast an experience I cannot even recount the major events in a continuous stream of memory.
The week following my last post played out as if scripted from the pages of an early American adventure novel. Riding the ferry on Sunday morning (now two Sundays ago) from Lake Chelan to Stehekin took 4 hours. Ominously the snow level on the mountains was now thousands of feet lower than when I had ridden the same ferry into Lake Chelan three days prior.
