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Three chances to get on your mat with me this weekend! 🧘🏻‍♀️✨ 🌱 Saturday, October 24 at 9am Join me at @thegreenehousegreeneville for a peaceful, relaxing way to start your weekend. We’ll practice for one hour, and class is $10. 🍻 Sunday, October 25at noon If you’re in the Tri-Cities, come flow with me at @johnsoncitybrewing on Walnut! We’ll practice for about an hour and enjoy drinks together afterward. $10 gets you into class and includes a pint. 🥾 Sunday, October 25 at 7pm I’ll be hosting a FREE virtual practice with @thru_r! This one-hour class is designed for hikers of all levels, so roll out your mat wherever you are and join us online. Whether you join me in person or from home, I’d love to see you on the mat this weekend! 💕 Message me with any questions or to let me know which class you’re planning to attend. 📸 @mistymountainphotography_ #yoga #yogaforhikers #hikingyoga #triCitiesTN #virtualyoga
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IMPORTANT DATES! 2027 Thru-Hikers! If you are thru-hiking the PCT- registration started October 15th and will end at 3pm pacific time October 22nd. (TOMORROW) Happy planning!
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PCT - Shelter Cove, OR to Bend, OR (mile 1908.0 - 2002.6) This section of trail hiked through the Three Sisters Wilderness and Mount Washington Wilderness which were super beautiful! There was a stretch where the trail takes you through a field of lava rock for miles, which was a fun change of pace, but also slow going and hard on the feet. Peter and the dogs met and camped out with me on the last night in this section and I got to hike the last few miles to Santiam Pass with our dogs which was so fun! I hit 2,000 miles hiked on the PCT right before Santiam Pass, which was fun to get to experience that milestone with Peter and the dogs! It’s crazy to think how far I’ve hiked so far! #PCT #pacificcresttrail #pct2026 #thruhiking #thruhike
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Something that I do my best to practice, but rarely preach in real life, or on-line, is fitness and nutrition. Whether hiking, running, horseback riding, kayaking, bushcrafting, traveling, or anything else that gets you outside and into nature, being physically fit makes all of them much more enjoyable. I’ve been fortunate to learn from so many to make delicious recipes and fitness techniques. Thank you to all including Lee Welton @trailside_fitness @chefaicardi @k_festerman54 @gary_doyle__ @annamckinneysmith @chefjaedoan and so many others. Thank you all and see you on the trail. @thru_r #fitnessmotivation #hiking #cooking
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Pacific Crest Trail (PCT): DAY 173 ••••• 10.02.26 (mile 2,615) Terminus day 🏁🏁🏁 Mountains make their own weather. We thought we’d get a bluebird day, but Washington decided otherwise. As some of these long journeys do, you know you’re close to the end, but never really sure where that last bend is, or what the approach actually looks like. I turned a corner & there it was. Non-descript. Just another part of a place outside. But this time, I was greeted by my friends, “Snax” & “Rock ‘n Roll”, clapping & cheering as me & another hiker (Kelly) finished up those final feet. I booped the monument & the Canadian border. That was that. Emotions are different for every trail. For every finish line. I never wanted to hike this trail to mark it off of some arbitrary list. I wanted to see something new. I wanted to have those “wowie” moments, as I call them, when I turn a corner & have my breath taken away. Some days were shit & what I’m assuming is a stress fracture, woke me up in the middle of the night, several times each night for months, & had me limping for well over 1,000 miles of this trail (the equivalent of doing the Pacific Northwest, Florida, or Mountains to Sea Trails, with a flat tire). There was not a single moment that I wanted to quit and I’m glad I didn’t have to. I feel grateful to have been able to successfully walk this 2 foot wide ribbon of dirt from Mexico 🇲🇽 to Canada 🇨🇦 & to, entirely on accident, finish on the PCT’s birthday of when it was designated a national scenic trail 🎉🎂🥳🎈🎊 I feel lucky to have met such a wonderful array of kind people & am ending this adventure a little softer & a little gentler (thank you so much “Snax” & “Rock ‘n Roll” for being such amazing examples of genuinely sweet human beings; hiking with you both has really meant a lot to me, but you both already knew that). This journey is now finished, but I’ll have these moments & this experience with me for the rest of my life. I don’t know what’s next. That’s for future me to figure out. For now, I’ll sit with this joy. - more ADVENTURES: link in BIO #pct #pacificcresttrail #pct2026 #pacificcresttrail2026 #thruhike
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Pacific Crest Trail (PCT): DAY 172 ••••• 10.01.26 (mile 2,604) The inevitable yo-yo 🪀 Historically, many PCT hikers would go into Canada 🍁& then hitch to Vancouver to have a hearty round of celebration 🍾 🎉🥳🎊🍻. Due to our current political climate, that’s no longer an option. The border is closed at the northern terminus, so we all have to go from Hart’s Pass & do our 30 miles to complete the trail at the border & monument, & then turn right back around and hike back to Hart’s Pass to hitch out to civilization & wherever we wind up going after trail. Though the day was a little chilly & pretty cloudy at times, we got some warm feels seeing those hikers on there way back. So many congratulations & “almost theres”. It was fun seeing some folx I’d not seen in a few weeks all excited that they’d completed their 2,660-ish-mile trek, from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. Spirits were definitely on another level. The views continued to impress. The colors seemed to pop even more today. As always, “Rock ‘n Roll” & “Snax” made it to the lunch spot & camp well before I did, but with hungry belly & headlamp engaged, I always managed to hobble my ass up the trail to meet them. Always greeted with heartfelt welcomes/wilkommens. I haven’t been listening to any music or podcasts for a little while now, so that I could make the time to process this journey (although I do have a general rule to not put anything on until at least 12pm, so that I make sure to have my time to myself in these amazing places). Terminus eve always comes slowly, as one makes there way across these vast expanses, & then suddenly, all at once. This is the suddenly, all at once. Low: pretty chilly all day, but not cold or wet; so I’ll chalk it up to a win High: the deciduous carnivorous larches in their vibrant yellow autumn garb - more ADVENTURES: link in BIO #pct #pacificcresttrail #hiking #hikingadventure #hikingtrail
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BACKPACKER LOVE LANGUAGE series pt2 ⛺️ My tent pitch is taut 😉
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Days: 161-170 AT Miles Covered: 175.7 Total Mileage: 2200 Nobo + 598.6 Sobo rolling average: 16.45 mpd Lyme Dorchester Road, NH to Pattison Road, MA States: NH, VT, MA Highlights in this section: Leaving the White Mountains of New Hampshire I started to notice more of the rolling hills, fields, and stone walls. I made it to mile 440 near Velvet Rocks on my Sobo trip which means I'm 60% through my total trip mileage. I enjoyed some trail magic burgers from a former thru-hiker who lives in Hanover, NH. I saw bear #4. I grabbed a free pastry at Lou's, the breakfast place I ate at on my way through Hanover, NH going Nobo. Farm stands made a comeback: pickles, pies, and ice cream. I visited with my friend Becky in Killington. We met in Seattle when we worked at Outdoor Research together. We heard the sad news of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry passing. Many childhood memories of Clue, 9 to 5, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas came flooding back along with many songs stuck in my head for days. Follow along as I continue my 4,400 mile journey yo-yoing the Appalachian Trail Nobo and Sobo in 2026.
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It’s really hard to sum up what happened over the last 5 months. In some ways… a whole lot of nothing. In other ways, absolutely everything. #pacificcresttrail #thruhike #hikertrash
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Welcome to Colorado ✨🌨️🏔️ Land of thunder snow and rainbows, golden aspens and summits crowned with clouds. We’re 1900 miles into a journey across the divide. Most days I rise up to the challenge, and many I fall into the rhythm of a pace I set long ago. Gone are the slow mornings and late sunsets as autumn takes the torch from summer’s grasp. How does one speed up when the soul wants to wind down? Colorado has a lot to teach me about drawing from the well of resilience and dancing in the rain and letting the sweet support of others lift me above the inversions. I thank my lucky stars that we are able to walk each other home. And on the days I don’t walk at all, I hold these fleeting moments so close to my heart they intertwine like fingertips resisting an inevitable goodbye.
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Three chances to get on your mat with me this weekend! 🧘🏻‍♀️✨ 🌱 Saturday, September 26 at 9am Join me at @thegreenehousegreeneville for a peaceful, relaxing way to start your weekend. We’ll practice for one hour, and class is $10. 🍻 Sunday, September 27 at noon If you’re in the Tri-Cities, come flow with me at @johnsoncitybrewing on Walnut! We’ll practice for about an hour and enjoy drinks together afterward. $10 gets you into class and includes a pint. 🥾 Sunday, September 27 at 7pm I’ll be hosting a FREE virtual practice with @thru_r! This one-hour class is designed for hikers of all levels, so roll out your mat wherever you are and join us online. Whether you join me in person or from home, I’d love to see you on the mat this weekend! 💛 Message me with any questions or to let me know which class you’re planning to attend. 📸 @mistymountainphotography_ #yoga #yogaforhikers #hikingyoga #triCitiesTN #yogateacher
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Quick peek at my second Highland hike! The blog about this month's adventures is forthcoming. Stay tuned!
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