Date: 10/21/20 Miles: 24.4Total Miles: 2138.9 Contrary to popular opinion—including my own—it is sometimes very much indeed about the destination, the journey be damned. When the journey is along yet another hot and dusty road for miles on end, it’s not hard to see why the old adage might begin to lose some of its…
Date: 10/20/20 Miles: 25.5Total Miles: 2114.5 Hanging on our dining room is a framed print of what looks like one of the world’s simplest works of art. My colleagues at work have probably even noticed it a time or two in the background of a video call and wondered: “Why that?” Two floating blocks of…
Date: 10/19/20 Miles: 19.3Total Miles: 2089.0 I am one with the pavement. In an effort to be zen that’s what I tell myself. Lacquered in tar, the rocks of the asphalt seem larger than I’d expect, maybe a half inch in diameter or more. Shoulder-less, we walk the edge and wave at the oncoming traffic…
Date: 10/18/20 Miles: 12.7Total Miles: 2069.7 All things change. Nothing stays the same. It’s as true of this trail as it is for anything else. Long from now, much of the 2000 miles we’ve walked will be gone, forgotten beneath the soil that has reclaimed it, replaced by newer and better tread. But the scenery—the…
Date: 10/17/20 Miles: 24.5Total Miles: 2057.0 Not 200 miles from the border of Mexico, the Pacific Crest Trail arrives at the foot of something very unexpected. Rising up from the desert floor as if conjured from the earth and into the sky, Mt. San Jacinto looms impressively above the tiny town of Idyllwild. With an…
Engineer. Long distance hiker. Gear junkie. Chaco ambassador. Always dreaming of thru-hiking the next long trail. Read More…
