Hey, Y’all.
Welcome to my blog.
Expect reflections on long distance hiking, hiking culture, nature, creativity and my undying love for backrests.
Welcome to my blog.
Expect reflections on long distance hiking, hiking culture, nature, creativity and my undying love for backrests.
2021 was more of a road trip year than a hiking year, but I did squeeze in another trek on the Benton MacKaye Trail.
U-Turn joined me for the first half. We traipsed through mobs of Lady Slippers, hobnobbed with Cicada Brood X and chased a bear away with an umbrella and cookware. (The bear came back and gnawed on my Ursack for a while and that looks exactly like what you think it looks like. Like fritos and snickers and knorr pasta sides all went through the vita-mix with a cup of bear spit and nothing about that is salvageable or appetizing when you finally recover what’s left of your food bag).
U-Turn sprained an ankle, so I continued alone, having ditched the Ursack and returned to hanging my food at night.
Silent Bob and I spent three months on the road, traveling first to New Hampshire, then out to Bend, Idaho, Yellowstone, Truckee, Utah and Manhattan, Kansas for emergency veterinary surgery. Good times!
