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September 26, 2014 •
John Muir Trail, Latest •
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During July of 2014 I set off for the Sierra to solo backpack the entirety of the John Muir Trail as well as explore some other areas of this California mountain range that I hadn’t seen. What follows is a select observation from...
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September 22, 2014 •
John Muir Trail, Latest •
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Before I left for Tanzania last year to hike up Kilimanjaro I wrote a short piece on altitude sickness. High altitude pulmonary edema was my favorite buzz phrase, though considering the factors of the hike–long days, gradual...
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September 19, 2014 •
Africa, Camps and Hikes, John Muir Trail, Latest •
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A few years ago my ex-girlfriend and I backpacked through a spot called Red Box Canyon in the Angeles Forest. When we got to our campsite we took mushrooms and fucked and pranced around the forest and the river with the sun watching above....
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September 15, 2014 •
John Muir Trail, Latest, Madness •
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For the last six weeks or so I’ve been doing something rather odd. Instead of writing todays’ date in my daily journal–September 15, August, 24th, whatever–I’ll begin by writing July. I noticed the pattern about a month...
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September 12, 2014 •
John Muir Trail, Latest •
Views: 838
There was one night when I couldn’t sleep. It was near the end when the final climb felt real, when my return home teased me with smells of burgers and shakes and orange chicken. What kept me up though, what really made my mind race,...
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May 19, 2014 •
Camps and Hikes, John Muir Trail, Latest •
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Somehow it has come to this. Six weeks from now I’ll be at the foot of a trail in Yosemite beginning a journey that’ll take me 230 miles in distance, and 30 days or so in time. I haven’t felt nervous about it all for some reason. I...
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