Date: 8/27/21 Miles: 10.5Total Miles: 2493.7 A person could get used to this, even in spite of the weather. The familiar pitter-patter on the roof of our tent at 4am sounded hesitant, almost apologetic, as though it knew that the clouds it brought with it would obscure nature’s masterpiece. The masterpiece we’d so looked forward...
Reunion
Date: 8/26/21 Miles: 11.1Total Miles: 2483.2 It feels like a long time since we’ve had a hiking day like this, absent a place to be and a schedule to keep. In truth, we did have somewhere to be but with only 11 miles of sweet, sweet National Park trail between there and here, it felt...
Unfinished
Date: 8/25/21 Miles: 14.8Total Miles: 2472.1 Last year was a weird year. How’s that for understatement? A world away from a world that was tumbling down a spiral it had not seen in a century, we had the good fortune to be strolling through some of the country’s most spectacular scenery as we followed the...
A Long Trail Yelp Review
A guest post by Ace Let me start by saying I am happy to have hiked the Long Trail, grateful my feet held up, and that we both finished the trail injury-free. But (there is always a but), the Long Trail’s Yelp review will only get 3 out of 5 stars. It is highly recommended...
Journey’s End
Date: 8/18/21 Miles: 11.1Total Miles: 270.7 When you finally put the last piece of a puzzle into its rightful place, exactly how long should you admire the completed work before taking it apart and putting it neatly back into its box? A few minutes? A few hours? A day? A week? It’s tough to willfully...