The Essential Menalon Trail Guide: The Greece that you won’t find in Athens or the Islands.
Save money, experience the Peloponnesian, and avoid getting stranded on one of Europe's great underrated trails.
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Tim Mathis
- 17 min
A Template for DIY Pilgrimage and Backyard Adventure: Lessons from an Urban Thru-Hike in Portland
Lessons about DIY pilgrimage, backyard adventures, and urban thru-hiking from a really long walk in Portland.
Tim Mathis
- 2 min
84 of the world’s best long distance pilgrimage and adventure routes.
File under: GAP Month inspiration. We’re serving 1997 Angelfire realness around here, so I made this unwieldy in-no-particular-order...
Tim Mathis
- 10 min
12 Books that Define Dirtbag Culture (and a few more that should)
Books that have shaped outdoor and travel culture into what it is today.
Tim Mathis
- 14 min
The Old Dogs of Olympus
The gods may be long gone, but there's still magic on the climb to Mt Olympus
Tim Mathis
- 8 min
New Zealand Is a Force That Makes Us Dirtbags
Aotearoa New Zealand has a way of making you care less about things, and more about the outdoors.
Tim Mathis
- 7 min
Leaving religion, playing outside: What's with the post-religious dirtbags sliding into my DMs?
Listen, I know this is strangely specific, but I keep running in to people who have left their religion and latched on to the outdoors...
Tim Mathis
- 7 min
What is a Dirtbag? An excerpt from "The Dirtbag's Guide to Life"
Other people have come up with definitions of "dirtbag" but I wrote the book on it so I'm staking my claim.
Tim Mathis
- 5 min
Stating your intentions is the first step: Birthing Travel, the PCT, and the dream life
The first step on the Pacific Crest Trail, for me, happened on the internet. Big life decisions are like that.
Tim Mathis
- 6 min
The Lower Hudson: A paddling gem hidden in plain sight
The Lower Hudson, Between Albany and NYC, is a criminally under-appreciated and accessible multi-day paddle.
Tim Mathis
- 10 min
The Camino de Finisterre in a day: An ultra running love story.
Running the Camino de Finisterre was both pure suffering and real pilgrimage.
Tim Mathis
- 7 min
El Camino de Santiago with just the clothes on your back.
A Camino de Santiago packing list as an illustration of why it's such an amazing adventure.
Tim Mathis
- 7 min
How to run around Mt. St. Helens: Live your Loowit Trail dream life.
The Loowit Trail around Mt St Helens is the prettiest, hardest 32 miles you could hope for.
Tim Mathis
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Book Review: Mud, Rocks, Blazes by Heather "Anish" Anderson
Anish's second solid addition to the adventure writing canon.
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