A Tale of Two Trails: A Lesson in Pain and Suffering along the West Coast Trail and Juan de Fuca Marine Trail
After losing his job as a software engineer, Ryan Carpenter headed off for exploration and adventure culminating in a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in 2003—his first long-distance trek. Since then, he’s gone on to thru-hike the Florida Trail and Pacific Crest Trail. Nowadays, Ryan lives in Seattle running Atlas Quest, a popular letterboxing website (http://www.AtlasQuest.com) and encouraging backpackers everywhere to ditch their heavy commercial stoves for cheap, lightweight, homemade soda can stoves (http://www.TheSodaCanStove.com).