Posted On: September 28th 2026, 05:04 pm
So thrilled to be helping Treeline Review celebrate their 8th birthday! They’ve teamed up with 42 brands to offer nine incredible prize packages filled with the coolest gear to help you get outside in comfort and style. 🥳
It’s been incredible to watch Treeline Review grow over the years and become the go-to place for gear reviews and trip reports.
This is the first year Bead by Bead Adventures has been a part of the giveaway, and honestly, it feels like an “I have arrived” moment! Such a thrill to see my logo here with all these other amazing brands! 🥰
When I made my first Bead by Bead on the Appalachian Trail necklace in 2020 as part of the
@quarterwayinn (my hiker hostel on the AT) I never would’ve thought Bead by Bead Adventures would become its own thing. I had been dreaming of some kind of wearable progress tracker since my AT thru hike in 2009 and finally made it happen 11 years later!! The AT necklace was a hit, and people who had it then wanted necklaces for their next trail… and then their next trail. Y’all know how hikers like to hike!! 😀 So in 2023, I spun off the necklace business from the hostel business and dove in! I have been designing new trail necklaces (and bracelets and earrings) as fast as I can over the last three years. I’m up to 19 trails and have seven more in the final review phase! And you have a chance to win one by entering the
@treelinereview Birthday Giveaway! Enter by finding the link in their bio or going here: https://www.treelinereview.com/giveaway
Enjoy these pics of the early version of the Bead by Bead on the AT necklace, the current lineup, and me as a fresh-faced baby hiker called Chunky who had absolutely no idea how thru hiking the
#appalachiantrail would completely change her life! And yes, I had no idea what I was doing or why a late SOBO start was a bad idea or the first clue about gear - but I did it anyway! If only Treeline Review had existed then! Could have saved me a lot of trouble!!