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Day 13- Nance Canyon to a few miles before Paradise

May 7, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn

Mileage 18
Mile 131 to mile 149

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My old van broke down en route to Dunsmuir on Friday but @tiffanysaintbunny drove up and saved me and having to wait extra days while my van was at the mechanic meant more time to putter around in our inflatable kayaks on the lake and iron out logistics for our Brooks range traverse/more meals cooked with queer friends old and new/more afternoons in old houses full of light/more time to wonder aloud about the irreconcilable contradictions of embodiment
The last 300-ish miles of our Alaska traverse will be spent on the Noatak river; I know nothing about boats; today we're on this chill lake in our incredible inflatable kayaks from @airewhitewater and Bunny is teaching me how not to die; seems important
I'm on the Feminist Killjoys @fkj_phd podcast talking about the Brooks Range traverse, intersectionality in the outdoors, ultralight backpacking, self publishing and a ton of other stuff. This podcast is GREAT and it was so fun to be a guest! Find it wherever you listen to podcasts, or click the link in my profile for the soundcloud! ✨✨✨
The full gear list for my Brooks Range Traverse is now up on my blog- click the link in my profile. Logistics for this trip are inTENTS (lol) and my flight to AK is in less than a month. I'm so excited/terrified I'll fuck up some important logistic/excited. * We've raised $3,600 so far for @defendthesacredak !! It's so important to me, as a white outdoorsperson with hella privilege hiking in the Brooks Range, to help shift resources as well as the narrative towards the indigenous groups that are directly impacted by threats to ANWR and who have been fighting the hard thankless fight there for so long. It's important for me, as a white outdoorsperson, to ask more marginalized groups what they need and then to work to give them that- not what I, as a white person, THINK that they need, but what they actually need. And organizations need funds. To pay staff, to pay for travel expenses, web design, supplies, everything. That's why I'm doing this fundraiser, and I'm SO FREAKING GRATEFUL to everyone who's contributed so far!! Aside from excitement to hike and terror that I'm fucking up the logistics, that's my other current feeling about the Brooks Range traverse- gratitude. And if you'd like to take part in the fundraiser, the link is in my profile✨✨✨ * 📷 @muffyjdavis
Lungwort lichen, or lobaria pulmonaria, fixes nitrogen from oxygen in the canopy of a mature forest and eventually drifts to the forest floor, where it releases this nitrogen into the soil through decomposition. I remembered that I knew this while we were sitting in a sunbeam in the dirt, high on the smell of warm earth and the brilliant unprectability of life. Lichen is actually a fungus and an algae and sometimes a bacteria as well, as in this case, working together to make a whole new being. I think often about the wave-particle duality of light and how we are not just individuals but also inseperable/part of one another/all beings and yet we cannot attempt to see both these truths at once without altering the experiment itself and muddying the results. What even is anything, really. * I like to take a hot bath in an old log with you.
You're wandering in the forest when you happen upon these two kittens playing on a patch of sun-warmed moss; wyd * (It's Quito and his littermate Chibi, reunited!!) * ~Zoom in for maxiumum whale-eye~

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