Draft to draft we float on a tendril of thought that cannot be contained. A wisp of air that snakes its way through our brain, focusing...

Writing this transition is as difficult (if not more so) than the transition we are currently going through. The transition back to...

Well, it certainly has been quite the year. ElevenSkys hikers, Constantine and Magpie, finished their NCT (North Country Trail) thru-hike...

The knees have been feeling the cold bite of the wind for too long now. The harsh sting of the sun as it crisps and crackles like bacon...

A beast with no premeditation nor malevolence in its nature, only indifference to the hiker that decides to take a peek into its open maw...

This is where the magic happens, not at the end, not at the beginning. The "in-between" is where life is lived.

This tomorrow that we now can see has been the puppet master to our play. The director to our movie. The conductor to our orchestra.

Every trail starts new. You stand at the terminus looking northbound, southbound, eastbound, westbound, any direction that begins...

"An imprint shaped in the form of 8 legs, terrifying pincers, and eyes that we see every time we close our own..."

A blank page, a blank page with a clock. A clock that ticks seconds, minutes, hours and days. Within that blank page there is everything.

Trenti iced coffee, 12 pumps [sugar-free] vanilla, 12 pumps [sugar-free] hazelnut, 12 pumps [sugar-free] caramel, 5 pumps skinny mocha...

A singular thought that appears to be the same no matter the uniquely weird and different hiker. We call it Hiker Think.

Time does not discriminate. You do not have a choice to move through this path because it is a universal law that time must continue. Yet..

Time is the most important commodity, a currency that can never be replaced, a unit of measurement that everything else is measured against.

We wake up in a cold sweat, it is 3 a.m. again and we hear the ominous sound around us reverberating through the thickness of the night..

We have licked the inside of a cheese packet for any sliver left of the powdered cheese-by product that tastes as if we were licking Olympus

Are we sponsored? Preposterous! We are not sponsored, but we are partnered to share our journey together with Tell Your Trail and you!

Is that the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? Maybe....

Let us go higher and higher to reach that alpine zone inside of ourselves and that alpine zone of the wild.

We have used the term "lesser known trails" quite frequently recently... yet we realize it needs to be defined what we mean.