Alex Maier

A man hikes 550 miles across the North Country Trail in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula from July through February, experiencing it in all of its seasons.

Take a visual journey through every month of the year in Michigan’s beautiful hidden gem, the Upper Peninsula. The scenery of this remote landscape on the shores of Lake Superior is unknown and unlike anywhere else.

After graduating college with a dream of becoming an outdoor filmmaker but no job prospects Alex Maier set out to hike 1,200 miles from the Continental Divide to the Pacific Ocean on the Pacific Northwest Trail. He chose one of the toughest and most remote long-distance hikes in America to put his skills and perseverance to the test, what he found were life-lessons that went way deeper than affirming a career choice.

Traversing untested mountain ridge routes in Montana, solo hiker Alex Maier embarks on a journey with many unknowns where things rarely go as planned.