Welcome to my blog.
Expect reflections on long distance hiking, hiking culture, nature, creativity and my undying love for backrests.
Picky enough that eating out isn't a recreational activity we indulge in that often because I generally prefer my own cooking. Food snob!
So it's a given that I'll be preparing many of my own meals and sending them to myself at mail drops along the way.
Here is my first recipe. It's a little breakfast ditty I composed for you called Sweet Potato Porridge.
I'm training for my upcoming Appalachian Trail thru-hike and I'm fortunate to live in a place that makes training easy, mostly fun, always beautiful.
Black Balsam Knob to Shining Rock is a ball buster. But it's also one of my favorite training hikes in my lead-up to my thru-hike.
Which I'm certain will be the mother of all ball-busters.
I've just finished reading Appalachian Trials by Zach Davis. (Read my book review here.)
Using a classic coaching first step, he encourages thru-hiker wannabes like me to spell out our why.
Here's my why.
I expect the only books I read between now and mid-March will be books about hiking the Appalachian Trail. From poetically, descriptive tomes about nature and spiritual evolution to wonky missives centered around gear and mileage and locations of all you can eat pizza buffets within hitch-hiking distance of the trail.
It’s all good and I’m soaking it all in.
To wit, I’ve just finished Appalachian Trials: A Psychological and Emotional Guide to Successfully Thru-Hike the Appalachian Trail by Zach "Badger" Davis.
This is my review of the book and some personal musings on how I know I'm in the right place doing the right thing in spite of the fear.
I'm training for my 2017 Appalachian Trail thru-hike and I realized I don't have to be a martyr for 2,000 miles. At least not where my feet are concerned. I need to treat them well because I'm counting on them for so much.
When I realized my boots might be doing me more harm than good, I took cues from the thru-hikers I crossed paths with last year in New Hampshire. I'm training in trail runners and I've got the Pro/Con breakdown on the blog, today.
