The night before Bethany Hughes started on the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650-mile hike from Mexico to Canada, she was so wired that she kept rifling through her bags.
Everyone else was asleep, but Hughes thought a "real" backpacker knew where to find anything she needed. So she kept pulling out gear, then repacking it. Over and over, all night.
Eventually, another hiker said, "You're like a 5-year-old the night before Christmas," and her trail name of "Fidgit" was born.
It has never fit better.
Five years later, the 29-year-old with the curious . . .
