Date: 7/4/20 Miles: 14.8Total Miles: 301.8 The sound was enough to wake me from a dead sleep. The confusion that followed was the kind that comes only when your brain, in its sleep-induced fog, strains to make sense of the unexpected. It was the sound of machinery, but it couldn’t be. Not way out here….
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A Clockwork Cumulus
Date: 7/3/20 Miles: 20.7Total Miles: 287.0 “Let everything happen to youBeauty and terrorJust keep goingNo feeling is final”—Rainer Maria Rilke Repetition, Monotony.Consistency, Banality.When does one become the other? Thru-hiking is about very little else if not repetition, the millions of steps that link it all together being merely the prerequisite for success. In time, the…
Back in the Saddle Again
Date: 7/2/20 Miles: 6.1Total Miles: 266.3 The cloudless sky was one giveaway. The temperature in the 80s was another. I don’t think we’re in Montana anymore. Eleven hours of driving behind us, the grand repositioning was complete and it was finally time to get back on the trail after sitting on the sidelines for far…
Rookie Perspective #2: The CDT Back Flip, with a Twist
A guest post by Ace As I said in my previous guest post, I’m a rookie. What do I know? However, as we began planning for the CDT I quickly learned that conditions must be perfect (said to the tune of Flight of the Conchords, of course) in order to hike this big ass trail…
The Better Part of Valor
Date: 6/27/20 Miles: 10.2Total Miles: 260.2 Compromise. Deviation from the desired. Challenging concepts that we all struggle to face and to come to terms with from time to time. Peter, the father of my high school girlfriend once told me, after listening to my story of beating a retreat and abandoning an attempt to summit…
