Last July a previously unknown hiker named Andrew Skurka dipped his hiking boots into the Pacific Ocean, and with that, became the first person ever to complete the Sea-to-Sea Route across North America--after 338 days and 7,778 miles.

Nice little jaunt, eh?

Well, if you're interested in hearing all about Andy's historic hike you can, next Tuesday evening, May 16th at the Eastern Mountain Sports retail store in North Conway NH starting at 7 PM. There are no Maine shows scheduled.

Andy will show slides and answer questions, and there'll be prizes and giveaways, too.

And speaking of long distance hiking...

Last evening while poking through the 2006 Outside magazine Buyer's Guide (the current guide isn't posted online yet), I caught a short blurb on another superhuman feat: Last August, Andrew Thompson (what is it about the name Andrew and big hikes?) of Derry, NH completed the entire 2,178-mile Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia in a blazing 47 days--a new record. Thompson averaged 46 miles per day on 5 hours sleep a night.

Whoa. That's moving!

See you up at Skurka's talk...