For those drawn into longer silence and simpler living on the trail.
A multi-day backcountry experience requiring prior hiking experience, involving extended time on wilderness trails, simple living, and sustained attention to God over time. A longer formation journey where life is shaped by rhythm, quiet, and dependence, and where perspective gradually shifts in the presence of God.
on The Trail
Your Journey at a Glance
- Experience Level: Best suited for experienced hikers
- Duration: 2–5 Days on Trail
- Distance: 15+ miles
- Difficulty: Moderate to Strenuous
- Group Size: Small Groups
- Location: Southern Appalachian Backcountry
- Focus: Backcountry travel, Simplicity, Endurance
What to know
What to Expect
Multi Day Backpacking Experiences are different.
For a few days, the trail becomes home. We carry what we need, walk at a slower pace, and settle into the rhythm of wilderness travel. The days become simpler: walk, eat, rest, reflect, and repeat.
Along the way there may be conversation, periods of silence, opportunities for reflection, and time to appreciate the beauty of creation. While we travel together, each person is given space to experience the trail personally. Solitude in the wilderness is not always about being alone. Sometimes it is simply learning to be present. The longer journey creates space for deeper relationships, meaningful conversations, and moments that often cannot be rushed.
Backpacking requires a greater physical commitment than our other experiences. Participants should expect to carry personal gear, spend multiple days outdoors, and encounter changing terrain and weather conditions. Detailed itineraries, gear guidance, and preparation materials are provided before each trip.
Every journey is different because every trail has its own story, and every person arrives with a different story of their own.
Come and journey
Who is this for?
Backpacking trips are not simply longer hikes. They are for those willing to spend enough time on the trail for the wilderness to begin its work.
These journeys are designed for people who are ready to slow down, listen honestly, and travel deeper than a day hike can take them.
Need Solitude
Not everyone wants to be alone. Some need to be.
The wilderness becomes a setting where distractions fall away, and space opens to notice what God is doing more clearly.
Ready for Honesty
Longer journeys have a way of bringing things to the surface.
Questions, struggles, hopes, and fears often become clearer when distractions fall away and life becomes simpler.
Seeking More
There are seasons when a person senses an invitation toward something deeper.
Not necessarily more answers. Not necessarily greater certainty. Simply a desire to spend extended time with God in the quiet rhythms of the wilderness.
Come and journey
Why Choose a Multi Day Backpacking Experience?
Backpacking trips offer something that shorter experiences cannot: time. Time to settle into the rhythm of the trail. Time to leave distractions behind. Time for honest reflection and meaningful growth. For those willing to stay a little longer, the wilderness often begins to reveal what shorter journeys cannot.
Live Simply
For a few days, life becomes wonderfully uncomplicated. The next meal, the next campsite, the next mile. Stripped of many of the distractions of everyday life, there is room to focus on what matters most.
Embrace Solitude
The wilderness offers a kind of quiet that is difficult to find elsewhere. Not isolation, but space. Space to think, pray, reflect, and listen. Space to hear what often gets drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
Be Changed
Some journeys leave a mark on us. Time on the trail has a way of revealing what we carry, what we need to let go of, and what God may be inviting us toward. Many hikers arrive seeking adventure and leave having discovered something much deeper.
Come and journey
Your Investment
Every backpacking trip is personally guided and intentionally designed to create space for backcountry travel, simplicity, and endurance with God in creation.
Because of the nature of multi-day wilderness travel, these experiences require a greater investment of time, energy, and preparation than our other offerings. Participants should be prepared for several days on the trail, carrying personal gear, and embracing the rhythms of life outdoors.
Detailed itineraries, gear guidance, and preparation materials are provided before each trip.
Your experience includes:
• Route planning and trip preparation
• Trip leadership
• Safety oversight
• A guided wilderness experience tailored to the group
• Reflection materials when appropriate
• Pre-trip planning and support
Backpacking experiences begin at
$200 per person.
Group rates and custom experiences are available. Contact Eremos for details.
Making the Journey Possible
We believe finances should not be the reason someone misses the opportunity to step away, slow down, and listen. If cost is a barrier, Trail Vouchers are available to help make an Eremos experience possible.
Every participant joins the same experience with the same preparation, expectations, and opportunity to encounter God on the trail.
Learn more about Trail Vouchers
Next Steps on the Trail
Every backpacking journey begins with a conversation.
Because Multi-Day Backpacking Experiences are planned individually, trips are scheduled based on group needs, trail conditions, and availability.
If you are interested in exploring a backpacking experience, complete the form below. We’ll reach out, answer any questions, and begin planning the next steps together.
Complete the form below to start the conversation.
Eremos Multi Day Backpacking Experience Information Form
Experience the Wilderness
Not sure where to start?
Start simple.
Half-Day Hikes are the most accessible entry into Eremos. From there, each step offers more time, more simplicity, and more space to pay attention to God on the trail.
You don’t need to choose perfectly. You only need to begin.
Eremos is here to help