Hi everyone. Here are photos and videos from our last leg of the trail. It also includes photos of my haircut by Dean Panizzi of Dean of Shadyside. Dean is a personal friend and runs an impressive hair salon in Shadyside.

By God’s grace and tender mercies, we just summited Mount Katahdin at 9:42 this morning. We are exhilarated! It rained all night, but we had clear weather this morning. Coming up the mountain, we got into a fog bank, and we’re at the top of the mountain in that fog bank right now. Mount Katahdin [...]

We made it to Monoson, ME! Tomorrow we enter the 100-mile wilderness for six days and come through it at the base of Mt. Katahdin to summit on August 10 (assuming good weather, good health, and all that stuff). This last stretch from Stratton, ME to Monson, ME has been our favorite. We climbed the [...]

We’re back on the trail. We’re feeling a lot better, and we were able to get in some pretty good miles, so we appreciate everyone’s prayers. We’re in Stratton, Maine—the 1,996-mile mark. Tomorrow we’ll cross over 2,000 miles! We’ve got to get to 2,184, so it looks like we’ll be done around August 10 or [...]

The glory of God’s creation continues to amaze us. Check out the latest photos and videos from the trail. [...]

We’re still in Andover, ME at the Pine Ellis Hostel. Yesterday, we decided to slackpack ten miles (carry only the necessities of the day because a shuttle would pick us up at the end of the day and we would return to the hostel.) Six miles into our hike, I started getting diareaha. We descended [...]

Just when I thought we had made it through the rough stuff we had to endure several more days that made the previous days seem like a cake walk in comparison. Apparently, we were not through the Whites as I boasted in our last blog. I learned that we had to scratch our way through [...]

We made it through the Whites! We’re in Gorham, NH resting in a hostel to beat some nasty thunderstorms coming through today and tonight. In the last week, we’ve climbed and clawed our way through the White Mountains of NH. We’ve endured our most difficult days of hiking so far. Yesterday, we summitted Mt. Washington [...]

We’re well into the heart of New Hampshire. We just summited Mount Moosilauke, which is a 4,800-footer. It’s been a long time since we’ve summited a good-sized mountain; I think this is the first 4,000-footer we’ve done since Mount Rogers in Virginia. We’ve been enjoying the crystal-clear, blue sky and beautiful weather. A high pressure [...]

We’re in New Hampshire! We arrived in Hanover last evening. We’re at the 1,742-mile mark. We have 442 miles to go—fewer than 500 miles! This is where the effort gets really, really difficult. There’s a saying that when you get to Hanover, New Hampshire, you’ve completed 80 percent of the miles but only 20 percent [...]