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Vote so that the CDT wins a $25,000 grant!

September 12, 2015September 12, 2015 / carrot quinn

The Continental Divide Trail is epic and amazing. The Continental Divide Trail is unfinished and needs money. Go to this website and click the button and the CDT will have money!! You can vote every day!

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HEY GUESS WHAT!!! This summer, my friend Bunny @tiffanysaintbunny and I will traverse the Alaskan Arctic via the Brooks Range. It's going to be... epic. I am low key excited/terrified. To read a long post with all the details, head over to carrotquinn.com or click the link in my profile. . While we hike I'll be raising money for Defend the Sacred AK, which is a Native led coalition of groups fighting to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which was recently opened for drilling. The Gwich'in people have called the Brooks Range home for forty thousand years, and for the last three decades they have been key players in the fight to protect ANWR. Click the link in my profile for more info about the fundraiser. . Our hike starts mid June, and the 1,000 mile traverse will take us two months. I'll be blogging every day from the route but I won't have reception, so the first posts won't go up until we're halfway through, in mid July. Head to my blog for more details. Thanks to Bruce "Buck" Nelson and @andrewskurka for the help creating the route. Ahhhhhh I'm excited!! (I took the above photo in the Brooks Range in 2016.)
Dank springtime feelings in the land of puppies and flowers, how u doin
Just, like, grateful for, like, everything in my life right now, man
Did yall know that dogs are special treasures from heaven sent to comfort us in our time of need; I'm in portland and it's great/warm 'n drizzly/all the trees are blooming; the future is overwhelming and amazing and terrifying; here we all are/what a time to be alive
I went running today on the PCT near Idyllwild and it gave me all sorts of feelings like, I'm low-key ashamed to be a part of the long distance hiking community because, while there are a handful of rad folks who give a shit as our country spirals downward into fascism, nearly everyone else is, at best, a "focus on the positive" aka "I refuse to acknowledge any systems of oppression that do not affect me personally" type or, at worst, an actual fascist. And I'm like, how do we change this? How do we radicalize the entire outdoors community. Because that would be cool. .. Edited to add: I don't have any answers, only questions. Just having feelings and shouting into the void/trying not to feel hopeless.
The palo verde trees are blooming in Tucson and I'm having so many feelings, esp about leaving. I feel so deeply connected to the sonoran desert, I love the house I've been living in here, I love the brilliant strong grounded people here and all the good work they're doing. I love the light and the sunrises and the birds and the painted crumbling neighborhoods and the cholla valleys and the jagged mountains. My pattern since birth has been to move around from place to place and I am so glad and grateful that the sonoran desert has become one of the places I return to again and again and I'm already looking forward to coming back in the fall. Maybe next year I'll stay through the summer and finally get to see the monsoons, and experience the transcendental heat. I just want a reason to put a cupholder on my bike that can hold a polar pop, you know? Bye until fall Tucson, I love you, you are a shining magic jewel and I am grateful for you ✨✨ ... Also, if this feels like a bit of an irish exit to a lot of ppl, I'm sorry, I'm rly socially awkward and I'll do better next time🌹

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