Author profile

Jeff Garmire

2x CDT Thru-Hiker, Professional Backpacker, Trail Runner, and Author

Jeff Garmire is a professional endurance athlete, speaker, writer, and author. In his book “Free Outside” he details his 8,000-mile journey hiking the Calendar Year Triple Crown, completing the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail in eight months. Jeff got into backpacking while taking a term off of college and somehow landed upon hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. Jeff currently has 17 speed records on long distance trails.

Location Review

The Five Best Olympic National Park Hikes to See It All

The hikes of Olympic National Park are overflowing: long strands of moss, a canopy of enormous leaves, trees curtained with fronds fanning the trails. And then you emerge onto a beach or mountain top—it’s like three worlds in one!

Jeff Garmire

2x CDT Thru-Hiker, Professional Backpacker, Trail Runner, and Author

Location Review

Continental Divide Trail: America’s Most Challenging Hike?

The CDT took me deeper into the wilderness than I’d ever gone before. There was more exploration, more solitude, and more consequences. I loved it so much I did it twice.

Jeff Garmire

2x CDT Thru-Hiker, Professional Backpacker, Trail Runner, and Author

Jeff Garmire

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