It comes very far from describing what a thru-hike is actually like.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Not About The Riding: Cycling, Blogging and the Grey Lady] Reference

Currently, I am preparing to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet Me at HOT or NOT] Reference

Team Farsight on a thru-hike of the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matador Network] Reference

He quit his job and set out on a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.the-daily-record.com's Homepage Articles] Reference

I quit so that I will be able to do my thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tight Fisted Miser] Reference

It is named after Emma Gatewood, the first woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogslinger] Reference

This year, the Pacific Crest Trail Association has processed more than 450 thru-hike permits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

While attempting a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, Chuck Allen stopped at a small town in Pennsylvania.    From Wordnik.com.  [MP3Board.com] Reference

Travelers looking to loop the entire lake on foot can take part in the Tahoe Rim Trail Association's annual thru-hike.    From Wordnik.com.  [YubaNet.com] Reference

I would actually love to give one of these to my fiance - he complete a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail last year, and has thousands of photos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weddingbee] Reference

She was also the first woman to continuously "thru-hike" (completing the entire route in one outing), says the Appalachian Trail Conference, the nonprofit trail group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homepage] Reference

After my epiphany moment in the midst of a thru-hike (JMT '04), the bulk of my weight loss has been - like others - in the lightening up of equipment that I still carry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backpacking Light Magazine] Reference

Federalist Papers, which I have been reading since just before I started my thru-hike, painstakingly describe many of the worst of the limitations of the Articles of Confederation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Mozilla] Reference

He attempted a northbound thru-hike last year, but eventually he had to leave the trail for heart problems that necessitated surgery with six bypasses - not exactly something that one can just push through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Mozilla] Reference

I can hardly wait to thru-hike the whole enchilada in one gulp, with all the sense of adventure and immersion that entails, but first I've got to finesse a few more extensions on the northern and southern end.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Future plans along those lines are to bike across the country, thru-hike the John Muir Trail, and thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail (and odds are by that point a Continental Divide Trail thru-hike will be in the offing).    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

I agree with the one person at the bottom of this page that gave it a 2 or 3 star. the movie did seem like it was about four 21 year old bar buddies, romping through the woods. well, actually, about three bar buddies, b / c one of them, somehow, got ran over by a car off-screen; therefore, ending his AT thru-hike. i completed the A.T. in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amazon Online News and Classifieds] Reference

Well, it was almost a thru-hike anyway.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

But this was Jason's third thru-hike of the PCT.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backpacking Light Magazine] Reference