Thru-hiking

Welcome to the ThruHiking podcast, the show helping aspiring long-distance hikers prepare for trail.

Through stories, you'll learn about tips, tricks, and specialized subject matter to help you feel connected to the hiking community and prepared for your future treks.

I'm your host, Carol Cheer Coyne.

And it's not really clear how that got started.

If you look at the ThruHiker database at the Appalachian Trail Museum, in the late 1970s, maybe a third of the people listed a trail name.

But by the end of the 1980s, most did.

And by the 1990s, almost everyone.