GEAR RECOMMENDATIONS

SHOES

• Salomon Speedcross 4
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• Dirty Girl Gaiters
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PACK

• Osprey Tempest 40 L Pack
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• Gregory Deva
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MISC

• Lollipop Farm
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•  “On Trails” by Robert Moor
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• Montem Trekking Poles
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• Black Diamond Trekking Poles
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THRU HIKING WISDOMS

THRU HIKING

• The trail presents you with the same kind of challenges that normal life does,
but in a way where you kinda get to see how you’re thinking really lets it play out.  It shows you
what’s important to you and what you’re willing to risk and what you’re not willing to risk.

• You walk away from this experience with feeling so much more comfortable with yourself.

• A big universal thing that I took away from this is that everybody is different.

• You can’t walk away from that and not know, regardless of anything else, how you operate as a couple.

• Anybody who thinks about thru hiking has to think about how do I exit my current life.

• You come back and you’ve learned so much about yourself, so much about what matters to you. 

• What I learned about myself was that I don’t need a lot of what other people
perceive to need in their lives.

• We’re meant to experience life!  We only have a set number of days on this earth and why not use them as much as we can.  That’s why we’re here!

• You might feel things that you’ve never felt before…but it’s OK!  And you’re going to make it.

• You just have to be like “okay, this is me in this moment. I am having trouble, but I will not be having trouble forever. And we’re going to move forward.”

• You want all of your gear to just help you move along.

• I can’t treat everything as an emergency because otherwise I will never finish this.

LISTEN TO KIM’S HIKING THRU EPISODE FOR MORE…