The Highline Trail is a 100-mile trail through the little-traveled Uinta Mountains in northeast Utah. The Uintas are one of the few east-west ranges in North America. The are home to 13,528′ Kings Peak, the high point of Utah. HIGHLINE is a feature-length documentary that follows the journey of five friends on a 10-day thru-hike […]
Movie Review: Wayfaring – A Jaunt Along the Camino de Santiago
The Camino de Santiago is a long trail that beings in France, and travels roughly 500 miles west to Santiago, Spain. The trail began centuries ago as a religious pilgrimage, but has evolved to be a journey that means different things to different people. Unlike many of the long trails in the United States, this […]
Mile…Mile and a Half Available on iTunes
The wonderful, award-winning hiking film Mile…Mile and a Half is finally available for pre-order on iTunes. Just in case you’ve been living under a rock, the movie follows a group of artists on their 2010 thru-hike on the epic John Muir Trail. In the course of the past few years, I’ve been lucky to meet Jason […]
Movie Review: Tell it on the Mountain
The Pacific Crest Trail is one of three famously long trails in the National Scenic Trails system. It extends over 2,600 miles, from Mexico to Canada. Established in 1968, the trail itself was not completed until 1993 — just twenty years ago. And each year, about 300 hikers from all walks of life step out […]
Movie Review: Flip Flop Flippin’
Long trails have a gravity that pulls thru-hikers toward them with irresistible force. I’ve answered the call of the John Muir Trail — twice. But of all the long trails in the USA, none is better known than the grand-daddy of them all: the Appalachian Trail — or simply the AT. My curiosity about the AT was first piqued […]
