Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

I would rather watch a sunset than TV.

Our bodies are made to move, and moving down the trail is one of the oldest, natural ways people have used their bodies.

I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.

I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.

I found things in the woods that I didn’t know I was looking for… and now I’ll never be the same.

Food is like a torture device because hiking 47 miles a day is hard enough. And then you're trying to get down 6,000 calories a day. Every hour, I needed a snack, every few hours I had to take in a meal and it's just not food, it's fuel. You're not enjoying it - you're seriously shoving it in your mouth and following it with water, juice or Gatorade.