I've been meaning for a while to write a piece on the things I ate on the PCT. Food is an important trail subject and a highly subjective one- our relationship with food changes continuously and our tastes and fancies come and go like the wind. Here, I am the subject, with my fussy gut … Continue reading Food on the PCT

(I've switched to past tense. It's getting wild up in here!) I went south; I sold my trailer to a woman on craigslist, put many of my possessions on the curb (before, everything I owned could fit in my trailer, now it fit in the back of a borrowed sedan) gathered my dogs and drove … Continue reading After the trail: November in 1,357 words

When I wake in the morning I sit up in bed and stare out the big window at the backyard. Outside the rain is coming down, hard, the wind lashing the trees. It's the same storm that, a few hundred miles north, is dumping feet and feet of snow in the Northern Cascades. The storm … Continue reading After the trail: The return of the existential despair

(Note: If you're new here and you'd like to receive an email alert every time I post something new, please click the "subscribe via email" button at the top of the page and enter your email. And welcome!) September 24 I wake at 6:30, tangled in the scratchy comforter, hotel room walls washed in pale … Continue reading After the trail: Hitching back into the US

September 22 Mileage 18 Mile 2630 to mile 2848

September 21 Mileage 27 Mile 2603 to mile 2630

September 20 Mileage 23 Mile 2580 to mile 2603

September 19 Mileage: Zero http://youtu.be/oTfk2oyucaE