Philip Werner is a lightweight backpacker who started blogging about his experiences section hiking the Appalachian Trail in January, 2008. His trail name is Earlylite because he likes to break camp at sunrise. In 2008, he finished a 270 mile end-to-end hike of the Long Trail and discovered that he has a passion for writing about backpacking and related outdoor topics.

In 2009, Philip logged 444 miles of hiking in New England and completed section hiking the Appalachian Trail in Massachusetts, Vermont, and all but 3 miles of New Hampshire.

In 2010 he completed a 171 mile coast-to-coast hike across the Scottish Highlands in an annual, international, non-competitive hiking event called the TGO Challenge.

During the week, Philip is Director of Product Management for an Internet software company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Philip can be contacted at earlylite AT sectionhiker.com.

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