05/20/2026
🇺🇸🤙🏼 Good morning beautiful humans!
This is more than a hike.
This is two veterans walking themselves back to life. Currently over 400 miles in with 1800 to go!
For those just finding Pack to Purpose ⛰️ — here’s what you’re watching.
Last year, Aaron “WitchDoctor” Walker was fighting battles most people never saw. PTSD. Suicidal thoughts. Trying to figure out what help even looked like. His mom reached out, and we got him into a 90+ day mental health treatment program for veterans and first responders.
He did the hard work.
But after treatment comes the hard question:
“Now what?”
How do you walk back into life after finally understanding your trauma, your triggers, your mind, and yourself?
That’s where the trail comes in.
Because hiking became therapy for many of us. The miles strip away the noise. The trail forces you to slow down, feel, think, process, and rebuild. One step at a time.
So now WitchDoctor and LongShot — both veterans — are hiking over 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine on the Appalachian Trail.
Not because it’s easy.
Because it helps.
Because too many veterans are fighting alone.
This journey is about mental health awareness, purpose, healing, and proving that asking for help is not weakness.
It’s survival.
If you know a veteran struggling, send them here. Follow the journey. Share the mission. Talk about mental health.
And remember this:
Sometimes healing doesn’t happen in a chair.
Sometimes it happens one mile at a time.
