Kelly Floro is a Managing Editor at The Trek. She specializes in travel and tourism, consumer travel, and the intersection of technology and the travel industry, with a keen interest in regional stories from North America and beyond. Kelly has also been featured in various publications, including The Trek.
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Kelly Floro's coverage primarily focuses on the HRP (Haute Route Pyrenees) and hiking. Her articles often involve reviews, breaking news, evolving stories, how-to guides, and expert commentary. Given her focus on hiking and outdoor activities along the Appalachian Trail, she may be interested in content related to adventure travel experiences, trail maintenance tips or equipment reviews.
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H urricane Helene devastated large swaths of the southeastern United States two weeks ago, including at least three AT communities — Hot
I started the AT in a hiking dress but changed my mind after about 700 miles, and I'm never going back. Here's why hiking dresses suck.
By: Kelly Floro
W e caught up with Jack “Quadzilla” Jones, everyone's favorite quadricep-having thru-hiking content creator, about what's really going on with the Appalachian Trail in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
L ook, I'm anxious. (Who isn't these days? It's an election year.) I'm also a thru-hiker. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive, and I'm here to prove it to you, in excruciating detail, with this list of unhinged things I do on trail for no reason other than because my anxiety brain told me to.
You'll regret it if you end up making these common, cringeworthy, but totally avoidable thru-hiker mistakes.
By: Kelly Floro
n accused murderer who allegedly killed a man, stole his identity, and staged a fake bear attack to cover up the crime has been arrested in South Carolina following a three-week manhunt. Nicholas Wayne Hamlett, 45, is believed to have lured 34-year-old Steven Douglas Lloyd into the woods near Tellico Plains, a small town in eastern Tennessee, and killed him to assume his identity. Hamlett was wanted in Alabama on a parole violation. The Monroe County, ...
L ook, I get that no one wants to hear this. Thru-hikers understandably get upset whenever anyone labels their thru-hike a “vacation.” Heck, I was insulted when people said this to me on the AT. Just last year, I became righteously indignant when someone called my thru-hike of the Pyrenean Haute Route a “walking holiday.”
ook, I love sleeping outside on the ground. Love it! But not, like, outside outside. This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I have to be honest: I really do not see the appeal of cowboy camping. Do you guys actually like it? I’m seriously asking. Sure, putting up a tent is a pain, and falling asleep directly under the open sky seems magical. But … magical enough to offset all the other stuff? Bugs and wind and surprise midnight rainstorms? ...
The new Nitecore NU27 MCT headlamp weighs less than two ounces and is fully featured. Here's why we love it for backpacking.
T ara Dower recently became the fastest human being ever to complete the Appalachian Trail, running the whole thing in under 41 days.
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