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Day 112: third-growth lodgepole pine forests and other things that make me sad

October 18, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn

August 10
Mileage 27.5 (27 plus .5 to the trail)
Mile 1757.5 to mile 1784.5

pacific crest trail 3124

lunch

Hooligan and his maté

Hooligan and his maté

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@tiffanysaintbunny and I are en route to the Arctic right now to start our Brooks Range Traverse- while we're hiking, even though we won't have reception, I'll be writing a blog post every day and saving it to my phone. When we reach the haul road (the Dalton hwy) mid July we'll hitch to Fairbanks and take a week off before heading back out for the second stretch, and that's when the blog posts will start to go up- with one caveat.😃 Find out what that caveat is in my most recent blog post- carrotquinn.com or click the link in my profile.✨ Ughhh I'm so nervous/excited yall. You can also subscribe to my blog to get an email notification when I post. I'll see yall mid July! 🙌 (📷 I took this pic in the Brooks range in 2016)
It was dark when we flew out of Seattle at 9pm but as we got closer to Alaska the sun came back up; I love looking at these far north mountain ranges from a plane because they are nearly all roadless full of cold secret passes and drainages and I know it's likely the only chance I'll ever have to peer at them in wonder
I WENT TO GROCERY OUTLET AND THEY HAD NEARLY-EXPIRED KALE CHIPS ON DEEP DISCOUNT, praise the goddess, now I'll unlock magic superfood superpowers in the Brooks Range/I'm dating the funniest, most brilliant, hottest person and now I understand why ppl quit long trails out of pure longing/2 dogs one cushion, or other reasons I'll cry while in the arctic/I wrote a blog post explaining how to make a route and paper maps using caltopo.com, link in profile✨🌹✨
We went car camping near mt hood and ran on the PCT and ate a lot and slept outside and I am so grateful for the beautiful ppl in my life and like, why am I going to Alaska again? I mean I know why and 2 months is gonna go fast and be over b4 I know it but I've been thinking a lot abt how lucky I am to have the close relationships that I do and how good it feels to invest in these relationships even tho that means stickin closer to where the magical inspiring brilliant kind queer ppl are (cities and towns) and less time sleeping on my neo air in the middle of nowhere. Let's make the long distance hiking community super intersectional and inclusive of queer ppl and ppl of color and fat ppl and other marginalized communities who traditionally have not been centered in outdoors narratives and then we can have our wilderness cake and eat it too, how's that sound ok great
Sometimes I just feel so grateful for how kind ppl have been to me/how many incredible experiences I've had thus far in life that I think I'll burst/here are some pictures of flowers
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

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