Date: 11/14/21 Miles: 7.4Total Miles: 765.4 Divorce, loss, upheaval, trauma. For as long as there has been wilderness there have been people who seek its healing and its catharsis. Packing with them emotional baggage as heavy as that which rests upon their shoulders, I’ve never counted myself among them—until now. For anyone who has even...
Date: 11/13/21 Miles: 21.3Total Miles: 758.0 Stars, sunsets, sunrises, distant mountains. This trail has been full of them—atmospheric settings abounding in a land of vast open space. Day after day your eyes are drawn to them, these obvious sights, and yet to focus only on them is to overlook that which is right in front...
Date: 11/12/21 Miles: 21.6Total Miles: 736.7 Open at 5am. That’s what the hand-written sign hanging from the door had promised, though the lady inside insisted it was wrong: they actually open at 4. A short pre-dawn stroll across what long ago was a set of railroad tracks, Patagonia was still fast asleep with one exception:...
Date: 11/11/21 Miles: 12.6Total Miles: 715.1 The rock strewn dirt road we’d arrived at just as dusk cast a pall of gray over the mountainside was more than just a home for the night. It was now our yellow brick road—albeit a less brightly colored one—leading us to a distant town stop that we could...
Date: 11/10/21 Miles: 22.8Total Miles: 702.5 The overgrown grass of an epic monsoon season now seems to coat every hillside. At daybreak, the sun turns it all a golden, buttery hue that is difficult to forget. A brief window of time where it feels like you are seeing things as they truly are, saturated in...
