Day 121: no no no no no

October 31, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn / 1 Comment

August 19 Mileage 21 Mile 1969 to mile 1990

Day 120: Three Sisters Wilderness of joy and magic

October 28, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn / 4 Comments

August 18 Mileage 31 Mile 1939.5 to mile 1969 (+1.5 miles to Elk Lake)

Day 119: woodland aid-station buffets and the redundancy of beautiful lakes

October 26, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn / 2 Comments

August 17 Mileage 24 Mile 1915.5 to mile 1939.5

Day 118: cake hangovers

October 26, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn

August 16 Mileage 20 Mile 1895.5 to mile 1915.5

I wrote a poem as a panacea against my post-trail sadness

October 25, 2013April 22, 2014 / carrot quinn / 3 Comments

2660 We’ll never belong to each other the way we do right now our patagonia in tatters leg hair bleached from the sun sitting on the ground licking snickers wrappers the day distilled to just one sound one color one smell and you, like a rose opening we agree on these things -there is nothing … Continue reading I wrote a poem as a panacea against my post-trail sadness

Day 116: missing

October 22, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn

August 14 Mileage 32 Mile 1852.5 to mile 1883.5 plus 1 mile to water

I got myself a post thru-hike present.

October 21, 2013 / carrot quinn / 12 Comments

In other news, civilization is a confusing labyrinth of murky options and arbitrary-seeming chores, and reintegration has been difficult. Sometimes I feel amazing! And I go on these long runs in Forest Park, longer than I've ever run before (twelve miles!) and I pick figs and I'm like, yay life! and sometimes all I can … Continue reading I got myself a post thru-hike present.