When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. It costs twice as much to thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail according to a new survey . | Credit: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year, 764 thru-hikers completed the survey. That’s only about 9.5% of the 8,000 long-distance permits issued on average each ...

To say that long-distance hiking has blown up since Backpacker started publishing would be the mother of all understatements. In 1973, the year our first issue went out, just 8 people completed the ...