Date: 4/18/19 Miles: 16.5 Total Miles: 57.5 The sweltering oppressiveness of a Deep South summer in To Kill a Mockingbird that hangs in the air with the same suffocation as that of the story’s racial injustice. The silent and hopeless expansiveness of the Texas desert that is nearly as menacing as its villain in No…
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Mmm, That Looks Delicious
Date: 4/17/19 Miles: 20.0 Total Miles: 41.0 The rain that had rocked us to sleep was now a distant memory, the moisture on the lowland grasses and the faintly muddy trail the only reminders that it had even been there at all. The morning began with some brief x-country walking followed by a climb up…
Red Rock, Meet Blue Sky
Date: 4/16/19 Miles: 21.0 Total Miles: 21.0 There’s very little that the Pacific Northwest and the desert Southwest have in common, except for one important detail: they’re both landscapes defined by water. So much of the lush green Pacific Northwest and it’s snow-capped peaks is owed to its surplus while the arid desert and mesa…
Forever a Student
Date: 9/11/18 Miles: 14.3 Total Miles: 171.0 No two hikes are ever the same and no matter how many miles you have under your feet there’s always something more to learn—that’s part of what makes it so much fun. Whether it’s learning how to not shower for a week or more (surprisingly easy) or learning…
The Five Senses
Date: 9/10/18 Miles: 18.3 Total Miles: 156.7 Sandwiched in between the snowy Crystal Range to the west and the parched Carson Range to the east, Lake Tahoe sits as the second deepest lake in the country and somewhere deep within its inky blue waters lies the California-Nevada state line. This morning we watched the sun…
