Pacific Crest Trail

I awoke at 7am today, and congratulated myself on turning 26. This day is the day the last of adulthood settles upon me: the…

Hiking with another person changes my brain chemistry. It is bizarre. I can’t explain it. But it is lovely. Felix Felicis hiked with me…

I woke this morning, stumbled out of my tent (creaking and ouching like the busted up creature I have become), and called my dad…

I woke up late, but excited to head into town. Etna! Everyone on trail has been twittering about how hiker friendly it is. I…

Morale was low. The sun was slipping into the west after a baking hot day, and my lungs were full of the smoke of…

Something is poking me as I climb. A few days ago I assumed it was my shirt riding up, and I kept pulling it…

I woke up hot. The sun was already baking us in our tent, and a great hunger was rumbling deep inside me. Food, coffee,…

Pure happiness. No words, just Boomerang’s skillz:                    

Girl One: Have you seen any fairies out here? I am trying to catch some. Girl Two: I haven’t seen any fairies, but I…

I remember the last half of my Bike & Build ride (a 4,000 mile cycling trip from Rhode Island to Washington that I did…

There was something in the curve of the trail around jagged rock walls, leagues of sky opening up beneath my feet, that reminded me…

I talked today to a good friend. She reminded me, when I told her about my rocky faith in this mission, that I had…