Cops continue to execute black people in the streets in the US, and I'm over here like 🌲🌲🏃🌲🌲 with my white privilege. On tuesday Alton Sterling, a 37 year-old father of five, was shot while being held by police on the ground after selling CDs in front of a convenience store (this was caught on … Continue reading Help end police violence

I forgot that when you cross through customs into Canada they ask you a million questions, and if you don't have a simple easy-to-digest story that seems totally 100% normal and common and legit (i.e "we are going into your country for one week and we are both gainfully employed and not homeless at all … Continue reading Denied entry into Canada/total change of plans

  The Great Divide Trail is a 750 mile/1200 km trail of high mountain ridges and brush-choked valleys in the Canadian Rockies along the Alberta/British Columbia border.. While the Hayduke is said to be the most beautiful desert trail, the Great Divide Trail is said to be the most beautiful mountain trail! (I imagine that this … Continue reading Onward to the Great Divide Trail!

Hey readers! Update things! Thing one: I created a public facebook page. So.... interact with me there if you want. You can ask me gear questions and I'll tell you your pack is too heavy. LOL. Thing two: I'm in Portland right now. I came here to see friends and take care of a bunch … Continue reading updates!

"It's a terrible route, and no-one should try it," says Mike Coronella. We're sitting in a burger joint in Moab, and I've just asked him what message he'd like to pass on to future Hayduke hikers. He laughs. "No, I'd tell them to do their homework. This route is not like the triple crown trails. … Continue reading Talking with Mike Coronella, the co-creator of the Hayduke Trail

5/24/16 Mileage: 45 Alternate title: rimming the Grand Canyon Sometimes you finish a trail and you're tired and your stomach hurts so  you lay on the grass for five days reading back issues of The New Yorker and at night you drag the foam mattress from your boyfriend's subaru and drop it in the dirt … Continue reading Grand Canyon bonus: rim to rim to rim

May 18 Mileage: 15 834 miles hiked Even though I sleep long and hard in the dark clear night I wake up feeling tired. A deep tired, way down in my bones. It’s the kind of exhaustion I recognize from the end of a trail. I don’t want to hike anymore. I don’t want to … Continue reading Hayduke trail day 62: Zion/Fin

May 17 Mileage: 15 819 miles hiked This section going into Zion reminds me so much of earlier sections of the Hayduke. Absurdly deep, fine sand that packs into our shoes, and orange slickrock. It’s like it’s all come full circle. We slog in the deep sand under a stormy sky in the morning (we … Continue reading Hayduke trail day 61: Deep sand to Virgin River narrows

May 16 Mileage: 13 804 miles hiked Of course my debit card is not at the post office, care of general delivery to me. That would be too simple, too easy. I call my bank- they tell me they never sent the thing, because they packaged it fedex and then realized that fedex doesn’t deliver … Continue reading Hayduke trail day 60: Touring polygamyville

May 15 Mileage: zero Why not take one last zero, two days before the end of the route? No really though, we need to get Dan’s broken phone figured out. And wait until Monday morning post office hours to get our box. Also, there’s shitty diner food to eat. And I’m really behind on my … Continue reading Hayduke trail day 59: zero in Hurricaine