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Chris Carter
Registrace 3. 04. 2020
Heyo! I'm an American artist/ultra-runner/traveler who grew up in Kenya, East Africa. I love writing, filming, drawing, running, climbing, backpacking... basically anything that uses the right side of my brain and gets me out in the wild.
I am a Senior Editor and gear tester at GearJunkie.com and AllGear Digital. For media inquiries or to send testing samples, shoot me a message at ccarter@allgeardigital.com.
I am a Senior Editor and gear tester at GearJunkie.com and AllGear Digital. For media inquiries or to send testing samples, shoot me a message at ccarter@allgeardigital.com.
Dear Thru Hiking | The Final Steps of a Triple Crown
What does it feel like to finish the Triple Crown (PCT, CDT and AT) of thru hiking? Well … complicated. Yesterday I crossed the NC/GA state line of the Appalachian Trail, the final checkpoint before the end. The emotions really do rush in all at once.
Dear Thru Hiking,
What a journey we’ve had! Tomorrow night I finish up your Triple Crown on top of Springer Mountain, and the emotions truly are crashing in. I remember hearing about you as a kid, and going on runs after rugby practice, thinking, “I’ll hike you one day!” on all the uphills. I couldn’t imagine what it would take, but I was training nonetheless. I’ve been dreaming about you for longer than I can remember. I guess it’s been my longest standing dream to experience each of your three gems … and a seemingly impossible one to carry out.
Sitting here at the end of it all, I’m experiencing the weight of realizing one’s earliest dreams. This moment that has played in my mind in hundreds of different fantastical forms is actually here, simultaneously a reality just as it ends. Like a bookend to a shelf of stories stretching to the horizon of my mind, the finality of it all strikes me harder than I anticipated. How can I finish something like this? How do I walk these last miles with closure?
There’s much to say, but I’m finding it hard to sum up. Difficult to describe a feeling that is constantly molding and shifting in this final moment. Gratefulness, sadness, elation, melancholy, motivation … thank you for them all. Thank you for teaching me strength. Thank you for teaching me weakness. Thank you for the gift of community, and that of pure isolation. Thank you for teaching me to find beauty everywhere, and for taking me to the most beautiful places I could ever imagine. Thank you for the late night grinds rolling into camp on empty, and the sunrise ridge walks filling me with energy. Thank you for the uphill plods in the blazing sun, and the downhill tramps through waste-deep snow. Thank you for the rain. Thank you for the sun. Thank you for the rawness of every moment, and the space to feel them. Thank you.
Though this feels like a bookend, I know it isn’t. Even though the dream may look different moving forward, it’s still there, and I’m excited to see how it manifests itself. So, for now, goodbye. Continue to change other’s lives like you’ve changed mine, in the most subtle and monumental ways. Continue to instill courage, humility, and above all a deep sense of wonder in everyone that walks your majestic paths. Continue to inspire, and when life allows, hopefully I’ll find you right where I left you.
Thank you again,
Chris “Rad” Carter
PCT 2018
CDT 2021
AT 2021
Music: Small Light by Message to Bears
Dear Thru Hiking,
What a journey we’ve had! Tomorrow night I finish up your Triple Crown on top of Springer Mountain, and the emotions truly are crashing in. I remember hearing about you as a kid, and going on runs after rugby practice, thinking, “I’ll hike you one day!” on all the uphills. I couldn’t imagine what it would take, but I was training nonetheless. I’ve been dreaming about you for longer than I can remember. I guess it’s been my longest standing dream to experience each of your three gems … and a seemingly impossible one to carry out.
Sitting here at the end of it all, I’m experiencing the weight of realizing one’s earliest dreams. This moment that has played in my mind in hundreds of different fantastical forms is actually here, simultaneously a reality just as it ends. Like a bookend to a shelf of stories stretching to the horizon of my mind, the finality of it all strikes me harder than I anticipated. How can I finish something like this? How do I walk these last miles with closure?
There’s much to say, but I’m finding it hard to sum up. Difficult to describe a feeling that is constantly molding and shifting in this final moment. Gratefulness, sadness, elation, melancholy, motivation … thank you for them all. Thank you for teaching me strength. Thank you for teaching me weakness. Thank you for the gift of community, and that of pure isolation. Thank you for teaching me to find beauty everywhere, and for taking me to the most beautiful places I could ever imagine. Thank you for the late night grinds rolling into camp on empty, and the sunrise ridge walks filling me with energy. Thank you for the uphill plods in the blazing sun, and the downhill tramps through waste-deep snow. Thank you for the rain. Thank you for the sun. Thank you for the rawness of every moment, and the space to feel them. Thank you.
Though this feels like a bookend, I know it isn’t. Even though the dream may look different moving forward, it’s still there, and I’m excited to see how it manifests itself. So, for now, goodbye. Continue to change other’s lives like you’ve changed mine, in the most subtle and monumental ways. Continue to instill courage, humility, and above all a deep sense of wonder in everyone that walks your majestic paths. Continue to inspire, and when life allows, hopefully I’ll find you right where I left you.
Thank you again,
Chris “Rad” Carter
PCT 2018
CDT 2021
AT 2021
Music: Small Light by Message to Bears
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That was inspiring !
Congratulations
Back in 2022, I had watched your impressive documentary several times and it was you who had a significant influence on me to go and hike the PCT which I eventually ended up doing with my best friend in 2022. Now in 2024 I still regularly watch your video and it always brings me back to the endless beautiful memories I made on this trail. So here I am and want to say: THANK YOU! :)
Way to go on the Oregon 24 hour 80+ miles! That’s amazing!!! I loved this documentary! Boys are so funny!!!😆
1:28 Pacific Crest Kem Trails. Wake up, people.
more in the friends you make then the journey? THE ONE PIECEE IS REALLL
What an amazing video, thanks for sharing your experience
I did not expect to be inundated by so many emotions, at the moment of arrival! Congrats! What a proof that... when really desired, a man can overcome any thing! God bless you!
Great Story/Journey brother, thanks for sharing!
I've expressed my sincere admiration below, but also wanted to ask you, how was it sharing this with the friends who were forced off the trail? Were they hungry for the details they missed? Full of recriminations and frustrations? Celebrating with you? ALSO I've been to smith rock and misery ridge. I was so satisfied that you all took the time to enjoy your climbing and not only getting on with the hike. I live in washington and it is truly beautiful year round. Hope you come back and enjoy. Congratulations for overcoming and living your (our) dream.
Great film! Must be a real technical challenge to not only complete the PCT but then also to have to remember to film it must be exhausting, so major props! Also, I love your style, but did you not get sunburns wearing shorts and tanktops?
Amazing Chris what a trip Amazing video (walkingman)
Incredible! Great job on the documentary and completing the trail❣️
What an inspiring film. Beautifully composed in every way. The way you express yourself through words is spell binding and The visual story perfectly compliments the poetry. Thanks for capturing the emotional ups and downs of your journey in an honest and beautiful way. What a magnificent way to showcase Gods creation!!
Thanks for sharing your story
That trail angel is the absolute MVP
Simply amazing. Wow. Thank you for sharing your journey.
Amazing!
I keep coming back to this vid, it feels so personal and the scenery is so dramatic. Really special.
@1:03:28 you decide if you wanna keep going or quit.. nothing is stopping you me~uggg except shin splints. some of the docs are cring… often giving a false sense of reality .. ✌🏼
The pct is not the end to a book. It’s the conclusion to a grand chapter!
700 miles. Just about the distance across the state of Montana.
any plans to make this a longer documentary like your PCT video? I thought to Measure a Mile was incredible!
Big plans! Full film in the works. Thanks for the kind words.
Did all the videos get taken down? Would love to see the journey
Videos never got taken town, I decided to compile them into a longer film I’m currently editing.
@chriscartermedia I can't wait to watch your journey!! I watched your documentary To Measure a Mile and it is what got me hooked on the pct, which I am attempting this year. Any idea when you might be finished with the cdt/at documentary?
Im just so happy :)
Awesome guys!! I’ve done a section hikes that’s all of the AT & CDT. How do you guys afford to not work or able to take off work for that period of time?
I've watched countless PCT thru-hike documentaries and this by far will go down as one of my top 5 videos. Very well-done, thought-out production. Also, very inspirational journey with many highs, lows and heart-felts short stories mixed within. Very much enjoyed watching it and sharing the journey you'al went on.
Those are the bravest last weeks i have seen Those last long cold days are actually mountaineering over days and dealing with cold and wet over days that would send most home as soon as the storm hit. (Including me)
I like sharing the bowl.
If you start as a team, to me, you should finish as a team. Only parting if one leaves the trail for good. You certainly ditched your friend quickly. I hope he overtook you and had a better journey/adventure. It's a lesson in life, and you didn't learn humility. Certainly not husband material and a fair weather trail family member.
Bravo sir! Bravo
Washington is so friggin beautiful so lucky I get to call this place home!
Awesome video man but am curious what happened in Oregon you jumped from Bend, Or to Washington that leaves out a heck of a lot of Oregon. Not complaining just curious.
New subscriber here. Great video, you really captured the essence of the PCT. Amazing photography and excellent narration. Keep the videos coming! Take Care, DoubleTap (PCT Class of 2014)
This is an incredible video. Truly captivating. Thank you for sharing the ups, the downs, and all the in between. ❤ I recently started watching hiking videos and have found a new level of respect, and inspiration from videos like yours. And absolute treasure to watch. We’ll done.
whoa
❤ Chris, this is the BEST documentary about a PCT journey that I have seen & I have watched many. Too many make their journey about them & you made it about your journey. Incredible. Thank you.
God literally created art and let us live in it
Amazing! I enjoyed every minute of it .. Thank you very much for taking us with you in this journey through your beautiful narration and videography.. It's truly once in a lifetime experience and I hope I will live to walk it myself one day.
Great job on making a bad ass video!
great video dude, very well done
Such an inspiring journey. I just love your determination and positivity throughout.
Amazing ❤
The cinematography is top-notch. The writing was trying far too hard.
42:21 what a shot, well done. I was watching on the big tv and had to come comment from my phone! 😊
Well done, really enjoyed watching that.
Incredible footage all around Rad! Any chance of more CDT and AT vids??
Thank you! Currently working on a documentary of both of the trails.
@@chriscartermedia awesome can't wait. I watch all your videos already
Awesome video man
Is there anyway to hike a portion, safely get off to recover then puck up further down the trail? Or are there places to camp/recoup aling these trails?
Inspirational! Thank you Chris for sharing your incredible journey with us.