I'm in Southern Oregon and I start work in a week- it's warm and smoky and I'm surrounded by oak-covered hills so I run uphill for as long as I can and eat GF sunflower-butter sandwiches and drink bubbly water with apple cider vinegar in it and work on my manuscript and, if you can … Continue reading the smoky warm ambiguous end of summer

And I'm bumming around Three Sisters Wilderness with Orbit, her friend Leah who's in acupuncture school and another friend, also named Lia, a diminutive welder with the words home sick tattooed on her knuckles. I'm sleepless and strange feeling as they texted me at midnight last night saying do you want to go to south … Continue reading It’s my birthday today

We're at the convenience store at White Pass, Washington, and my heart is racing from caffeine. Hiker's packs are lined up on the bench outside the store, which sells pizza and honeydew melon and has a cluster of metal tables where hikers can hang out while they charge their phones. It's noon. I peek inside … Continue reading The PCT isn’t real and September is cold: a trip report of sorts

I didn't know that I would finish the trail so early; it's still high summer; I've been gifted this incredible amount of time. I've managed to walk so far so quickly and now here I am, sleeping on the floor of my friend's beautiful house in Portland, the white noise of a fan blowing and … Continue reading Adventures/Friends/Possibility

In case you want to read them, like, all at once. You can find it here- PCT 2014 or by clicking "PCT 2014" on the menu on top. 2014 gear review coming soon!

I've been in Portland for a week, staying with my good friend Seamus, riding a bike, taking naps, eating collard greens and too much dark chocolate. Reconnecting with the people who I love, face to face and on the phone, through email, however I can- sometimes I think that I am a very poor friend, … Continue reading update/what happens now/THANK YOU

August 18 Mileage 44.5 (14.5 miles to the Canadian border + 30 miles back to Hart's pass) Mile 2645.5 to mile 2660 At four a.m. in the still-dark the Hexamid beside us starts to rustle- there is no water, no white noise and so the sounds are like sharp cracks in the night and we … Continue reading Day 116: something like absolution

August 17 Mileage 36.5 Mile 2609 to mile 2645.5 Sleep hard wake early, make my little oatmeal and eat it watching the fog move across the meadow. Hiking by 6:10, we're climbing today but only 5 thousand feet. I walk with Tiny, he talks about being a chef, we discuss gender dynamics in kitchens, the … Continue reading Day 115: these last few days are so sweet

August 16 Mileage 29 Mile 2580 to mile 2609 I sleep bad my second night at the lodge, for some reason, and in the morning I wake early and go to the restaurant, order eggs and sausage and potatoes to go. Everything in Stehekin is expensive, and I'm definitely spending the last of my money, … Continue reading Day 114: pie, climbing, cutthroat pass

August 15 Mileage: zero Our last zero on the trail. I sleep amazing on the hard floor with the cool damp air coming in the window, earplugs in my ears to keep out the snoring. Wake feeling tousled and relaxed, as if the set has changed somehow, maybe everything is going to be ok after … Continue reading Day 113: Freakin’ Stehekin: a zero in the promised land