Peaks For Parkinson's 2020

Thanks to all of your support, Peaks For Parkinson’s exceeded its fundraising goal of $10,000. If you didn’t see it, there was a nice...

July 20, 1944 – May 11, 2019 [Jim Hester and Zuni Bear on the Mount Mansfield summit in 2010.] When I decided to do Peaks For Parkinson's...

Thanks to four-time Long Trail end-to-ender John Page for sharing his family's experience with Parkinson's Disease beginning in the early...

I don’t think you can thru-hike the Long Trail without benefiting from the trail community in some way. By “trail community,” I mean the...

After 27 days of walking the length of Vermont over the Green Mountains, I arrived at the Canada Border on Saturday, October 3. The days...

Well, here I am at Twin Brooks Tenting site on a beautiful autumn day. I’ve walked 200 miles, thinking about people with Parkinson’s...

It was a tough ten miles. I have new blisters to prove it. Today, my friends, Tim Macke (whose grandmother lived with PD) and Ram Verma,...

Yesterday, I ran into two southbound section hikers, “The Hoon” and “Vintage,” and we started talking. I mentioned why I was hiking and...

I’m now just over 140 miles—so halfway to Canada. I had some fun visitors on the trail yesterday and it was a very social day. The past...

Service and battery life have been spotty and poor so this blog overall might be more of a photo blog. Here are a few shots from my last...

Berries at Harmon Hill Epic mud (trail) before Stratton Mountain Trail bridge and fall colors My dear friend, Deb, joined me for the hike...

Day 1: Today I began my long walk north to Canada. Hiking these first miles through the forest has already heightened my senses and...

Resupplies dropped off in the north. Thank you Ed O’Leary and John Predom.