A new season is about to begin for the Packing It Out team! This year’s goal is more ambitious than ever: Remove trash from 5,025 miles of iconic American landscapes, by bicycle.
Article written by Seth ‘Cap’ Orme, a ‘Packing It Out’ founder.
Last year, Packing It Out cleaned the length of the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail. It was during this clean-up effort that plans for 2017 started to brew. 2016 was our second year cleaning long trails and we had an itch to try something out of our backpacking comfort zones.
A bicycle tour across the country grabbed the Packing It Out team’s attention.
This year, we will make it happen. Packing It Out will clean scenic areas from coast to coast. Below, I’ll roll into the “who, where, what” of this year’s cleanup effort.

Who Will ‘Pack It Out’
This year’s crew will be a duo. Paul ‘Spice’ Twedt from the Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail teams will take on another project (Adventure Stewardship Alliance) this year and won’t be on a bike with us. We will reconnect with Paul in the fall for a paddling trip along the Mississippi River.
