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Do What Make Good
Trail diaries, honest gear lists and photos from the Te Araroa, the Pacific Crest Trail, the Pyrenees and the Alps. The story of a guy who left the corporate world to find out what else is out there.
The trails
Where I have walked
Every trip has its own diary, photo gallery and, for the long trails, a detailed gear list.
Pacific Crest Trail
Five months through desert, the High Sierra and the Cascades: my thru-hike from Mexico to Canada.
Te Araroa
The length of New Zealand northbound: beaches, bush, river crossings and the huts of the South Island.
Pyrenean Haute Route
The high line through the Pyrenees from coast to coast, wild-camping every night.
Gear lists
What I carried, gram by gram
Complete lists with every item and its weight, plus what I changed for each trail. Read by thousands of hikers planning their own thru-hike.
PCT gear list
4.9 kgbase weight- Backpack: Hyperlite Mountain Gear 2400 Southwest
- Tent: Zpacks Duplex
- Sleeping bag: Western Mountaineering Summerlite
Te Araroa gear list
16 → 5 kgbase weight from start to finish- Backpack: Hyperlite Mountain Gear 2400 Southwest
- Tent: Zpacks Duplex
- Rain: Rain jacket + Zpacks rain kilt
TMB gear list
4.8 kgbase weight, full circuit in 4 days- Style: 4 days, wild-camping every night
- Backpack: Hyperlite Mountain Gear 2400 Southwest
- Tent: Zpacks Duplex
HRP gear list
4.8 kgbase weight, wild-camping every night- Backpack: Hyperlite Mountain Gear 2400 Southwest
- Tent: Zpacks Solplex
- Stove: Jetboil Zip
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About
Hi, I'm Florian
After years in the corporate world I swapped the office for the trail: 3,008 km through New Zealand, 4,265 km from Mexico to Canada and many weeks in the Pyrenees and the Alps. This blog is where I share the stories, the gear and the photos.
My book Do What Make Good – Der Anfang von 8500 km Glück tells how it all started. Today I also speak about courage and change as a keynote speaker.