On Tuesday morning a hiker who had been lost for five weeks in the backwoods of British Columbia was found alive. Sam Benastick, 20, set out on his 10-day hike in the northern Rocky Mountains in late ...

As I descended from Upper Slate Lake through rabbitbrush and sage, I whistled, “It’s a long way to Tipperary,” after hiking a couple hours in the darkness. In answer to my tune, a wolf howled across ...

It wasn’t that long ago that aspiring thru-hikers had to explain what, exactly, they were doing planning to hike something like the Appalachian Trail or Pacific Crest Trail. The kinds of distances ...