“I came out here to be by myself,” said Plane between bites of unclean grapes, “like that guy in the movie Into the Wild!” No wonder 60% of thru-hikers in my…
There was more to Little John than I could initially see. At forty-seven, the combat veteran sat with me on a zero day (zero miles of hiking, also considered a…
In a 2017 study looking at fear of failure in over 400 Portuguese athletes, men and women expressed fear in different ways. Fear of shame, embarrassment, and lower self-worth was…
When asked what motivations were still the same at the end, Appalachian Trail thru-hikers had one or two motives that remained from the beginning. Besides the overarching goal of finishing…
The Appalachian Trail is a goal, albeit a large one, for most novice and experienced thru-hikers. This begs the question, why do we create goals? Goals aid in driving humans…
The limitations we have in life – whether real or perceived – are frequently created by ourselves. More often than not, if we think we can accomplish something and have…