Moon & TyeDye Shuttles

10/08/2026

On the trail

09/28/2026

This is super concerning
If anyone has seen our friend Mischief
Please reach out

09/28/2026

We are heading out on a 20 day section hike tomorrow. We will be back until the 15th of October.
If you need a shuttle or any support during these next couple weeks, we won’t be available

Much love all
✌️😊❤️

09/17/2026

We got to meet Megan and Brian, first timers s on the trail and SOBO thru hiker Lucky Duck

Much love all

09/13/2026

Hey all, Moon here 😊

So much to say about my wife TyeDye Jen and I’m wondering where to even begin.

I was working as a DPW employee in Milford this year which left my wife taking care of our entire shuttle business on her own most of the time. I started smack dab in our busiest part of the season and only could help in the evenings and weekends.

My wife is a boss!! She handled scheduling, she handled pick ups, drop offs, slack packers, last second shuttles, resupplies all with being flexible for our shuttle rides. She also would drop me off and pick me up from work because we only have the one car for now.

You have to understand that when Jen and I first met, she knew nothing about hikers, their needs and the beautiful community we have along the A.T. hidden in plain sight. I was directly off my A.T. Hike in 2021 and tried explaining it but once she experienced it for herself, shuttle driving on the PCT as I made my attempt at a thru hike in 2023, she was hooked. We decided we loved it so much that we would come back to Pennsylvania and start a small shuttle business that kept us close to that very beautiful community we loved so much. We never knew where that single decision would lead us.

My wife was contacted by a guy who wanted to section hike the entire state of New Jersey with 7 or 8 of his friends. His name was Ram and although he and his friends have done some super cool stuff, they were somewhat new to backpacking long trails. I was working most of the day and couldn’t help so Jen was left with no other choice but to plan, coordinate and educate Ram and his group on the terrain they would encounter, the miles that they would have to traverse and where and when to pick them up.

Tyedye wasted no time, she and Ram began planning their epic hike back in July. She remained flexible and worked out and then re worked out, multiple times, a schedule that would fit the groups abilities and time frame.

Luckily, I got to be a part of this whole experience as it came into fruition. The group of 7 friends were so much fun as they hiked hard over the rocky terrain and each night as we picked up the weary hikers we treated the guys with ice cold iced tea. They were such a fun group and they enjoyed themselves along the way. We even joined them for dinner twice upon their request which was a beautiful experience of sharing food, full belly laughs and smiles for the miles.

We were so happy to be a part of their story and they were an amazing part of ours. It always seems for us, when we coordinate trips with folks like this, it always ends up that the entire group and us become close friends.

But more than anything my wife showed how far she has come. She didn’t even blink or hesitate , she knew the miles, she hiked the entire terrain and she gave great advice to the guys.

I’m so proud of her and her accomplishments she has achieved. She started out like all of us, not knowing what to carry, where to pack it, or anything a seasoned backpacker would know and now she is planning out entire hikes for newer hikers. Passing the knowledge along so that others could enjoy the trail safely and continue growing the greatest community in the world.

Heres to Tyedye Jen, my beautiful wife, she has grown so much, gained so much confidence and earned her miles the only way you can, by hiking them.

Much love all and a big shout out to our new friends who successfully section hiked the entire state of New Jersey along the Appalachian Trail

✌️😊❤️

09/01/2026

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08/31/2026

Congratulations to Dale “Grey Beard” Sanders for reclaiming his title as the Oldest Human to hike the Appalachian Trail at 91 years young.

So amazed at this guys energy and pure spirit.
Sending him our love and adoration for achieving such an amazing accomplishment.

Something tells me in a world with folks beating records left and right, this one may stand for a long time.

08/24/2026

A little something I wrote to the new hikers finishing up their thru hikes

Lets talk about Post Trail Depression shall we,

I’ve been seeing some posts about new hikers finishing their first thru and really feeling that depression hit them like a freight train.

PTD is definitely not avoidable completely, I mean with the amount of exercise you get and we are talking about olympic athletics with a diet of skittles and ramen. With this much effort it creates a lot of dopamine, serotonin and a bunch of those feel good chemicals our body is not used to producing on any average day to day in our real lives. Losing the extra brain cocktails that are not only scientifically responsible but are also directly responsible for literal happiness; losing these are a thing most folks do not consider when they are taking their first step onto the trail.

So, unless you plan on hiking forever or doing some other activity that is as intense as the workout a thru hike brings to the table, then PTD is absolutely unavoidable.

Lets be honest, maybe a few folks have a life style that they can do this stuff everyday but for the majority of us, our hike is special because we are on borrowed time and the real world looms when we are finished.

Many hikers I meet often say,

“The trail is the real world and that the society we actually live in outside the trail is sick and fake.”

It’s a very interesting observation and one that I honestly believe has a lot of truth to it.

I mean, how can one experience the trail without falling in love with nature everyday?

Getting to live by the solar clock instead of the time on our phones. Waking to a sunrise and watching the sun set. Becoming familiar with terms like “Hiker midnight”.

Meeting the most beautiful community of trail angels, helpers, hostels, trail towns and shuttle drivers who are all complete strangers whom feel more like family. There is no way to experience this kind of stimulation in your real lives. Every single day is new people, places and things.

This brings me to the hidden part of the depression. The part that’s not as scientific but more connected to a hikers heart. This is something we only gain by change and we who have hiked these long and beautiful miles can certainly understand change.

We all chose to do something that is as epic as it gets. Our reasons are all sacred and personal but nevertheless we all chose to thru hike a long trail.

This experience could do nothing else but profoundly change us at our deepest levels. No one could have taught you these lessons. You had to pay for the ticket and take the ride. How can we believe we would ever come back as the same person we started as.

This change is often undiscovered during our journey. Or we notice pieces of it emerge along the way. The weight of it hits after the journeys end. It’s the pain of realizing that we can never go back to the person we were before the trail. We mourn the person we once were, back when we were blissfully ignorant of the lessons the trail had to offer.

My biggest piece of advice for coping with this short but painfully strong depression that will most certainly hit you hard is a simple one.

Be gentle with yourself. ❤️

Understand that this too shall pass and your life is definitely not over. Instead, try to remember the most important lesson the trail offers.

If this beautiful trail had all these amazing life lessons that will continue to change and shape the rest of your life, then surely there are other things out there, just like the trail was, hiding in plain sight for anyone to find it. All you need to do is look and be opened to try something different.
Comfort zones are vacuums that suck the joy from life, change will always happen outside of comfort.

Life has always just begun for those who are willing to step out of the darkness and move slowly one step at a time into change which is alway hidden in uncertainty.

Much love all
Moon
Class of 21

05/24/2026

Since Moon has been on a social media break, I’ve been trying to be more mindful of my own eyes behind the screen, so I apologize for the lack of posts this month!😩🫶🏽
We’ve been meeting lots of awesome section hikers, spending time with trail friends & now thru hikers are starting to come thru our neck of the woods!👣

We even learned a new term from one of our last groups going up to NY - SASHers - Slow Ass Section Hikers!🤣😍

Loving & enjoying (almost!) every moment of hiking season this year - minus all this rain - but I know the forest is grateful for it!🥰🌳🌲🌧️🌈✨

Please reach out if we can help you thru Northeast PA into NJ! We just updated our info on the FarOut app - Find us at Milemarker 1282.3 Wind Gap!

Much love & Happy trails, y’all!
☺️✌🏽🫶🏽🌈✨

05/07/2026

Yesterday Moon & I had the pleasure of meeting TieDye Goat & Ash, helping them as they started their journey out of PA & into NJ!👣⛰️🥳
Her reaction when she first saw me… “I think I finally met someone who wears more tiedye than I do!” 🤣😜🥰

Much love & Happy trails, y’all!
🤗✌🏽🫶🏽🌈✨