About Me

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Thanks for taking the time to explore my blog!

This is where you can find the inside scoop on all of my backpacking adventures.

Ever since I was a kid growing up in Pennsylvania, I knew I wanted to walk from Georgia to Maine. I’m not sure that I even knew what the trail that follows the route was called. Only that it existed and I wanted to do it. When I was a hard working and poor college student in Ohio I realized that the cheapest way I could travel was backpacking but I had no gear no one to show me how. My childhood dream of walking a very far distance resurfaced and I suddenly became obsessed with learning how I could acquire all the gear, skills, and self confidence to actually go out and “do the thing”. Eventually I found myself standing at the Southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail on Springer Mountain in Georgia. After my first week of backpacking I knew that the Appalachian Trail would not be the last time I would go on a long hike.

Since the Appalachian Trail in 2019 I have been able to realize my dream of becoming a triple crowner by thru hiking the CDT in 2012 and PCT in 2022. Between all of those adventures I have found myself skiing, working, and living in Colorado and Montana. I appreciate all of those who have invested in following along my hiking adventures. Getting to share them on this platform has been one of my favorite parts.

-Deserrae “Early Bird” Potts