We don’t start hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail until tomorrow, but that made today quite busy: we needed to get from home in Maryland to Reno, Nevada, an intermediate destination on the way to Tahoe City, California, to start our hike.
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Every trail requires at least a little preparation, and the Tahoe Rim Trail is no different. Fortunately, with several trails worth of experience under our belts, we were able to plan this hike in record time.
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No thru-hike is complete without a gear list! This is the list of equipment I’m taking with me on my hike of the Tahoe Rim Trail. This is an evolution of the gear from my Appalachian Trail, Long Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Benton MacKaye Trail, and Tuscarora Trail thru-hikes.
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With summer approaching, so too does my next thru-hike: The 171-mile Tahoe Rim Trail, located in the mountains surrounding Lake Tahoe, in California and Nevada.
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When I delayed my planned thru-hike of the Continental Divide Trail last April due to COVID-19, I was cautiously optimistic that, by April of this year, the virus would have been well under control, things would mostly be “back to normal”, and I’d be on trail. That didn’t really happen.
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