Mike / “Milkman”
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Mike / “Milkman”
@milkmanhikes.bsky.social
Completed the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail 🏔️

Soon attempting and documenting hiking’s 8,000-mile Calendar Year Triple Crown 📆👑👑👑
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

I’m attempting the 8,000-mile Calendar Year Triple Crown—hiking the Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide trails within one year.

Follow along here and (soon) on YouTube!

#CYTC #ThruHiking #AT2025 #PCT2025 #CDT2025 #Hiking #Nature #Camping #Backpacking
Long overdue photo dum from my Appalachian Trail attempt. I was going quite fast for a while, but overuse injuries have slowed me down. But I’ve made it from GA to the start of NH. 450 miles to go!

#AppalachianTrail #AT2025 #thruhike #nature #hiking #camping
June 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Chapter 1 of the 8,000-mile Calendar Year Triple Crown just dropped. Enjoy!

#CYTC #thruhiking #AT2025 #hiking #camping #nature

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The 8,000-Mile Hike: Ch 1 — Appalachian Trail Begins!
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March 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I’m tired for some reason.

#thruhike #hiking #backpacking #camping #AT2025
March 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I’m on the Appalachian Trail starting my 8,000-mile Calendar Year Triple Crown attempt!

It has been frigid at times but is a blast!

Don’t know if I’ll succeed, but I’m giving it all I’ve got!

#hiking #thruhike #AT2025 #AppalachianTrail #camping #nature #travel
March 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This Buckeye never expected to walk on a frozen creek in the Chihuahua Desert.

#NewMexico #ice #desert #nature #hiking
February 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Dairy Queen took this shot. I love it.

#NewMexico #sunset
February 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Part of an observatory complex. We observed the vista and our favorite star.

#hiking #nature #mountains #NewMexico #landscape
February 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Here’s all my gear for the 8,000-mile hiking attempt. I’ll soon go from a rental home to just this. Crazy.

#hiking #camping #backpacking #CYTC
February 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
One of the last training hikes before the 8,000-mile attempt. Alamogordo, NM is on the valley floor.

#NewMexico #hiking #nature
February 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The Land of Enchantment’s sunsets are ace.

#NewMexico #sunsets #sky #mountains #nature
February 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Frozen waterfall was NOT on our NM bingo card. You surprise and wow us, Bridal Veil Falls.

#waterfall #NewMexico #nature #hiking #publiclands
February 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
She hates my shirt but loves the Sacramento Mountain’s and Chihuahua Desert’s terrain.

#NewMexico #hiking #mountains
February 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
My wife, Dairy Queen, has custody of their office mascot, Mort the Sasquatch, this week. We took him to his first White Sands visit. He digs the dunes.

#WhiteSands #NewMexico #NationalParks #PublicLands #BigfootSighting
January 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Until I’m 6-ft under, I’ll soak in every petroglyph possible.

#petroglyphs #NewMexico #publiclands
January 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s a screen grab preview of my upcoming 8,000-Mile Hike YouTube series.

The starting line is within site!

#thruhiking #hiking #camping #nature #desert #NewMexico
January 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
January 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
If you open this, the scope and scale of hiking’s Calendar Year Triple Crown becomes clearer. Looking forward to starting the odyssey.

#thruhiking #hiking #backpacking #camping #CYTC
January 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Congrats to THE National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes!!!

I’m a kid again!

#OSU #GoBucks #CFB #CFB #OhioAgainstTheWorld
January 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Never pass on an opportunity to bathe in the desert’s golden light.

#hiking #desert #NewMexico #mountains
January 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Now this is my kind of old school cool.

#PCT #thruhiking #hiking #camping
January 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The 8,000-mile hike draws closer. I see brutal days on the horizon, but memories remind me that the good days make the struggle worthwhile.

#hiking #camping #nature #landscapes #mountains
January 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Living near White Sands National Park’s sunsets is stellar.

#NewMexico #sunsets #publiclands
January 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The ancient social media feed known as Newspaper Rock.

#desert #petroglyphs #Utah #publiclands
January 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
New Mexico enchants us.

#NewMexico #nature #hiking #desert
January 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Everyone should try coastal camping once.

#camping #hiking #beach #Ocean
January 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM