Budding: 3 Years Off On the Trail
My Triple Crown Journey
In 1985, I hiked onto the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), an inexperienced outdoorsman, yet somehow finding my way from Mexico to Canada. The adventure continued the next Spring, crossing from Georgia to Maine on the Appalachian Trail (AT). I quit The Washington Post to continue the journey from Canada to Mexico on the Continental Divide Trail (CDT), completing the Triple Crown of American long-distance hiking, crossing New Mexico before the CDT had even been completed in the state. Travel back with me through words and pictures carrying us more than 8,000 wild miles, over America’s highest mountains, across raging rivers and blistering deserts on a great adventure!
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Pacific Crest Trail (1985)
177 days of hiking the 2,650-mile trail from Mexico to Canada, crossing California, Oregon, and Washington.
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Appalachian Trail (1986)
160 days hiking the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail, extending across 14 states from Georgia to Maine.
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Continental Divide Trail (1987)
178 days hiking 3,028 miles between the U.S. border with Chihuahua, Mexico and the border with Alberta, Canada.