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    Barefooting the 212-mile John Muir Trail

    Barefooting the 212-mile John Muir Trail By posnerk This is my blog post for completing the John Muir Trail, a 212-mile hiking trail in...
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    Completing the Catskills All Trails Challenge

    This blog post describes a project I completed which consists of walking, hiking, or running every mile of official trail in New York's Catskills Mountains. I am probably the only person to have completed this project barefoot. To be honest, it is mostly barefoot hiking, rather than running...
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    9,000 Miles Barefoot

    Here is a report on reaching 9,000 cumulative miles of barefoot walking, hiking, and running, which comprise among other things 51 races of which 13 were marathons and ultramarathons. The blog post covers racing, barefoot hiking, and lessons learned...
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    Barefooting the 212-mile John Muir Trail

    Barefooting the 212-mile John Muir Trail By posnerk This is my blog post for completing the John Muir Trail, a 212-mile hiking trail in California's Sierra Mountains which runs from Yosemite Valley in the north to the summit of Mt. Whitney (14,500 feet) in the south. I had intended to hike it...
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    Art Van Turkey Trot Chicago 5-mile Race Report

    This was posted on my blog www.thelongbrownpath.com On November 22, 2018 I completed the Art Van Turkey Trot Chicago 5-mile race, coming in 3rd out of 70 in my age group and 119 out of 2180 overall. My son Philip finished #8 in his age group and my wife Sue, who ran the 5k, finished #6 in her...
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    Five more peaks in the Adirondacks

    Hey Tristan, I was thinking of you while out there. Yup, lots of mud out there on Couch! Would like to sneak back out again in October, but hearing of snow already in the Catskills, I think my next trip to the Daks will be in July 2019.... speaking of which, what's the Winter Challenge?
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    Five more peaks in the Adirondacks

    Here are two blog posts from two days spent in the Adirondacks, both long days spent hiking barefoot in wet, muddy conditions. https://thelongbrownpath.com/2018/10/10/blake-and-colvin/ https://thelongbrownpath.com/2018/10/14/a-long-loop-in-the-daks/
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    Xero TerraFlex Shoes

    I've been wearing Xero TerraFlex trailrunning shoes when going barefoot is too slow or difficult and have found them to be flexible and comfortable and provide good protection and traction, and so far over the last 200 miles they've held up with no visible wear on the soles and only a tiny nick...
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    3,000 miles barefoot

    Here's an update on my barefoot journey, which started in 2015 (inspired by, of course, Born to Run) and is now up to 3,000 miles of running, hiking, and walking. In recent months, I've learned a lot from reading Ken Bob Saxton's book on barefoot running, and just wish I'd read it much earlier...
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    Seven peaks in the Adirondacks

    Nice report, Tristan, really pretty pictures. Good luck completing the 46 barefoot, a very worthy goal, you should enjoy Dial and Nippletop. I may sneak up there again in early October
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    Comment by 'posnerk' in 'Barefooting the Grand Canyon'

    I updated the link and hopefully it should now work
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    Comment by 'posnerk' in 'Barefooting the Grand Canyon'

    I updated the link and hopefully it should now work
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    Seven peaks in the Adirondacks

    Here's an account of hiking seven peaks barefoot in New York's Adirondack Mountains. These mountains have a mix of trails, and in some places they're some of the worst trails I've ever seen: straight up or down the mountains, totally washed out, tumbled rocks and tangled roots, and everything...
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    First steps in Yosemite

    I changed the link, hopefully this one will work better
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    Barefooting the Grand Canyon

    Inspired by Thea Gavin, I recently hiked down Bright Angel Trail without shoes, and then at the bottom put on my Terraflex trail-running shoes and power-hiked back out. Blog post at https://thelongbrownpath.com/2018/08/23/down-into-the-grand-canyon-and-back-up-again/
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    First steps in Yosemite

    Hi...this is a blog-post about a recent hike in Yosemite, 9 miles barefoot, 7 miles back in shoes. To summarize, the 16-mile round-trip was mostly sand and very pleasant barefoot hiking....the exception being the exposed granite rock faces, where the rock is flaking apart into grit...those...
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