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Turn Your Step Count into Appalachian Trail Mileage – Virtually

Walk The Distance is an app available for iPhone's through the app store and will turn your step count into virtual mileage along the Appalachian Trail. So you may think, "so what? It tells me I have gone 5 miles on the AT?". It does more than that y'all! You ...
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List of Appalachian Trail Hostels, Hotels, Business & Area Closures (and ReOpens) due to Coronavirus

Appalachian Trail Closures (and RE-Openings) due to Covid-19

I AM NO LONGER UPDATING THIS LIST AS MOST PLACES HAVE OPENED BACK UP EXCEPT FOR SHELTERS AND PRIVIES. I am keeping an ongoing list of Appalachian Trail Hostel, Hotel, Business, & Area closures due to the Coronavirus along with those that have reopened. NOTICE: The list that keeps coming ...
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Program Lets You Recycle Mountain House Meal Bags

A new program from Mountain House allows you to send in your used Mountain House meals to be recycled. Mountain House recently partnered with TerraCycle in order to bring a free recycling program to Mountain House consumers in an effort to reduce waste and keep their meal pouches out of ...
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USFS Releases Interactive Visitors Map

The United States Forest Service recently released an interactive visitors map that allows visitors to search for campsites, recreational activities, and forests. You can zoom into specific areas to see what amenities and activities are offered. The maps can be printed, shared, or you may create a geo pdf all ...
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Dana Peak Park catches fire

Air Tanker drops fire retardant on a fire at Dana Peak Park.

So my favorite hiking place caught fire on Monday (Oct 19th). It burned around 50 acres or so. When I woke up from my alarm, I realized that the Dana Peak Park fire had gotten big enough that the West Side Strike team had been called and therefore our guys from ...
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Hiking with CBCFR Firefighters & KWTX Ch. 10

Central Bell County Fire and Rescue Hike in Harker Heights for 3CR RSS Soldiers that are deployed

This morning I had the privilege of finally meeting some of Jerry’s other family from Central Bell County Fire & Rescue (CBCFR); a volunteer fire department located in Nolanville. We met Nick Delgado with KWTX ch. 10 out at Dana Peak Park in Harker Heights, and did a 3 mile hike ...
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Killeen Daily Herald came out for a hike!

Picture from when KDH was out covering my story.

Killeen Daily Herald came out for a hike today! It's definitely been a busy last several days, between KCEN coverage and Jerry Deploying, however, the rest of the week will be just as busy. The Killeen Daily Herald came out today to cover my story of hiking 1000 miles. Thankfully Tammy and ...
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KCEN (ch. 6) news coverage

KCEN News coverage of our story of hiking 1000 miles for the deployed soldiers of 3cr rss at fort hood texas

Typically on Saturday, I do my long hikes (those that are 10-15 miles). Today, however, we only did 3.5. Matt Reed with KCEN tagged along today to report on what Miles 4 RSS is and why I am hiking/walking 1000 miles. It was wonderful having him along. I won’t lie, ...
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