5 Tips for your AZ Trail Thru-Hike 

Totally agree that keeping your mind engaged is so helpful! Turn on a podcast and completely forget how bad climbing this peak sucks. lol

This was very useful!! Congratulations on the thru hike!

On my near thruhike of the Scottish National Trail this past summer 2020 I found myself constantly looking forwards to writing in my journal at the end of the day. I spent hours contemplating what to name each day's journal, and I excitedly looked forwards to reading as a treat too. On my zeroes (of which there were a few spent in my tent, usually due to weather although one was a true sick day,) I wrote on my iPad Air, which was an invaluable item which was well worth its 1 lb weight. As an artist, I love to draw as well as write, so the 1 lb iPad was significantly lighter than a conventional paper journal plus sketchbook and art tools. Plus, I could watch Netflix on it if I wanted on zero days in town, and I do not believe that I would have survived my fourteen day quarantine in London as sanely as I did had it not been for my iPad! (Easily the most boring experience of my existence, but worth it because it allowed me to hike the SNT during the pandemic.) Love your advice on the Superfeet, I think I will have to try those next time. I considered it in Scotland because I had problems with the extensor tendon on my right foot but that ended up being solved easily with some adjusted lacing, although the tendon remains kind of messed up two months later. It seems to like midcut shoes better than the Altra Lone Peaks which I took to Scotland but I'm hoping that I can fix it before I thruhike again somehow! Might go get some therapy for it once I am employed again. Love your note about how certain songs jog memories for you; that's a good tip for long term memory of a hike. I spent most of the SNT in relative silence (although I always had a song stuck in my head or a story ongoing,) but I CLEARLY remember the one glen that I was in where I caved, finally listening to a podcast because the weather was awful and I needed a distraction from my sodden state. (One of the reasons I want to do the AZT next - I feel like there's less chance of getting drenched day after day after day for weeks. Ugh. I got mild hypothermia three times on my hike. Very glad that I was well prepared and had good gear.) Anyway, you're awesome and thanks for another great video!

Greetings here in Flagstaff Arizona! Bro!!!? So.... How much water did you pack?! Toilet paper, snacks, food?! How much do I need if need supplies?! Should I carry some cash?! Debit card?! Okay. Enough questions. Thanks for the tips!!

Thanks so much! I'm planning to thruhike the azt in a couple weeks

#4. Most hike it because of the isolation not the socialization. Also, you cannot hear a rattlesnake if you have music in your ear.

Great tips

From personal experience, use the regular Sawyer filter on the AZT. The Sawyer "mini" gets clogged more often.

Awesome advice. Thanks for sharing! Planning to nobo in the spring if things go accordingly 😄

Your sneeze was my fav 😂💋

Military surplus boots are the way to go

Thank you. I'm just starting to hike again and planning on the Arizona trail my first thru hike in about a year just starting to plan and these videos are so helpful. Thank you again

Hey, thanks for this vid. Came across it since I'm planning on doing a section in a couple weeks.

SOLID SNEEZE RIGHT BEFORE TALKING ABOUT SMELLING THE ROSES! Thanks for sharing this, I really appreciate it! This will help for my future hike.

Doing this this upcoming April.

Good work. Enjoyed all of your AZT videos.

Good suggestions. Thanks.

great info!