Pacific Crest Trail

Six at night is my favorite time to hike. I am slogging up a hill, my very bones weary with my too early wake…

I spent today hiking on ridges high above Lake Tahoe. Ridges make me feel like I was meant to hike this trail. The vast…

Today was a pop song. The colors were brighter with brilliant greens, neon pinks, endless shades of warm browns. I was floating along, light…

We didn’t need to check out of the campground until 11am, and we decided to make every moment count. I woke at 6.40, stumbling…

I lounged around with Ant all day, doing nothing. So, instead of writing, I did nothing. Here is a photoblog:            …

I woke up on the porch too early, but everyone rustling around kept me up. I put everything away in the early morning chill…

I began the morning late, sleeping in and then luxuriating over my LTE service. I looked at the weather — I would have a…

The day broke late for Me Thinks and I. We rose in the chilly shelter of frost bitten trees, a slurry of hail still…

I am standing in the middle of the hail storm, at a loss for what to do. I have on my cheap, light rain…

Yesterday I passed the 1,000 mark. 1,000 miles walked on two feet. 1,000 miles en route to Canada. Yesterday I accidentally climbed high into…

I read an ode to thru hiking on Backpacker.com a few weeks back. The writer, an Appalachian Trail veteran, said that thru hiking allowed…

Over the course of the 20 miles I did today, I clambered straight up 2,000 feet, and then slipped right down the same 2,000,…