09/04/2025
As our community has celebrated 🥳 the great achievement of a local hero, Jared Zornitzer we would like to take this opportunity to share his FINAL blog that was published in The Trek .co most recently. This article is a beautiful, raw, heartfelt compilation of a boy who became a man on the Appalachian Trail. And this story personifies his trail name Kenai 🐻, a story that he and his Mom watched on repeat when he was just a toddler!
Please join us in this moment of gratitude for his safe return from the trail, and more importantly we thank you all for being part of our lives and watching this adventure 🥾from near and far!
From the words of :
“The AT was all about smiling through the suffering. You hike over rugged terrain, in every weather condition imaginable. You are hungry, tired, and wet for days on end. A lot of days, you just want to stop.
At the same time, you have to remind yourself that you get to be out there. You have the resources to go out and chase a dream. You get to be surrounded by nature’s oldest gifts. You get to train your mind to respond to future adversity in life which you aren’t lucky enough to choose.
I summed up reflections from my thru hike in my newest Trek blog post, “Smile Through the Suffering.” Check it out at the link in my bio!”
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