A Thru-Hiker's Blog
Date: 9/26/17 archaeology: noun | är-kē-‘ä-lə-jē 1 the scientific study of material remains (such as fossil relics, artifacts, and monuments) of past human life and activities One year and one day ago, I arrived at an unassuming stripe of cleared forest that would never have been identifiable as an international border had it not been…
Date: 9/25/16 Miles: 19.8 Total Miles: 2650.1 It began like any other day: morning coffee from the warmth of my sleeping bag followed by deflating and rolling up my sleeping pad, and stuffing my few belongings one by one into my pack before emerging from my tent to take it down once more. The only…
Date: 9/24/16 Miles: 19.3 Total Miles: 2638.8 I love Chacos. True story: I own 8 pairs of them. Two pairs hiked the Appalachian Trail, two have hiked the John Muir Trail and the Wonderland Trail twice, and three have now hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. Combined they’ve been my companions for well north of 5,000…
Date: 9/23/16 Miles: 21.1 Total Miles: 2619.5 Well, it started out promising anyway. Bright stars and the Milky Way had illuminated the night sky as I cinched up the sleeping bag around me last night, and although a layer of clouds had moved into the valley below us by morning, the red flare of the…
Date: 9/22/16 Miles: 21.2 Total Miles: 2598.4 The clear skies that we’d fallen asleep to were the same ones we woke to, but somewhere in between we had yet another dose of overnight rain. Fortunately, it was the last we would see of the wet stuff for the rest of the day. Under the newfound…
