Mary Anderson completed the 3,100-mile Continental Divide Trail on September 14, 2021. She wrote this post as she was approaching the end...

Mary Anderson completed the 3,100-mile Continental Divide Trail on September 14, 2021. She emailed this photo (above) soon after crossing...

The ability to loco-mote is an amazing skill, and being able to walk is really a miraculous thing. It takes a lot of body parts working...

The final stretch of Mary Anderson’s trek along the Continental Divide Trail included a crossing of Wyoming's spectacular and perilous...

Editor's note: Last Saturday, while in Pinedale, Wyoming, to resupply, Mary sent me a second draft of an earlier post, not knowing that I...

I have seen animals go silent just before the earth started to shake. They sensed the tremors coming. In some parts of the world, people...

Hiking helps me put my “mistakes” and decisions into perspective. I used to sometimes stop somewhere for the night only to regret the...

I stand on the top of a mountain feeling satisfied that my aging body made the climb. I eventually pull myself away from the views and...

"deepest river coming up. Some say waist deep. Some say can go down and find shallower place maybe. Cross tomorrow or next day. More cold...

Our guest blogger Mary Anderson reported yesterday that she has reached the northwest boundary of Yellowstone National Park on her...

Slack packing by beautiful Ennis Lake with a lovely breeze blowing. Trail angels Jackie and Dean Strong and their family. Hooking up with...

I slowly and painfully lift my stiff body from a sitting position on the ground. I stare at my pack, willing it to levitate into position...

Mary is taking an alternate route along the Continental Divide Trail to avoid the many wildfires in the region. In the past few days, she...

Wildfires have caused thru-hikers on the Continental Divide Trail to take sketchy alternate routes during one of the hottest, driest...

From where I am sitting right now life and time feel like such contrasting things, yet they are so closely intertwined. We live life for...

There are trail politics around alternate routes. On some trails, such as the Long Trail in Vermont, there really aren't alternate trails...

It's not the bears I am most afraid of out here. Lightning on an exposed ridge scares me more. And even more than that, I am concerned...

Self-discipline is often hard. When I am home it is easy to find reasons to put something off until the next day. But out here on the...

Korongo blogger Mary Anderson is making a solo thru-hike of the 3,100-mile Continental Divide Trail, a journey of healing that she began...

“A friend told me that one of the hardest things about losing someone was having love with no place to put it.” Korongo writer and CDT...