8/19/21 14 miles It's balmy in the canyon, warm enough that I take off my sleeping socks, and not a single mouse runs over my face. Incredible. At one point about ten raindrops fall, and I move everything inside the dripline of my tarp in anticipation, but then the storm has passed. I wake too … Continue reading Arizona Trail day 5: The GC!

10/18/21 24 miles The wind picks up in the night and howls in the tops of the pondies but it can't reach us, down here safe in this aspen grove. I get up to pee and the trees grow white in the moonlight and I get spooked, feeling I can sense an animal nearby. Probably … Continue reading Arizona Trail day 4: cold wind

10/17/21 20 miles I am in so much pain today. It's like every hiking pain I ever have on occasion decided to happen all at once. I'll try and describe it to you- first, my feet are screaming. The tendons are incredibly sore, like they've been punched. The pain in my feet moves around, first … Continue reading AZT day 3: pain cave

10/16/21 20 miles It's cold, in the 20s maybe? But everything is blessedly dry, not a drop of condensation anywhere, and I am cozy and warm and I sleep, dreaming of the moon, which shines on my tent and wake now and then disoriented, not sure where I am. Yellow dawn finds us shivering through … Continue reading Arizona Trail day 2: I love the pondies

10/15/21 Mileage:20 I wake in the pre-dawn darkness in our motel feeling incredible- yesterday started with a 2:45 a.m. flight out of Anchorage, and by the time evening rolled around and I was eating thai food with Matthew, Jessica and CJ in Page, Arizona I was loopy from the long day of travel on one … Continue reading Arizona Trail Day 1: wondrous Kaibab

This week I start a thru-hike of the Arizona Trail! It's been a few years since I've walked a trail this long and straightforward, and I am... very excited. I'm gonna roast in the sun, drink cow water, have a great time. I'll be blogging every day here, posting photos on instagram (@carrotquinn) and also … Continue reading I’m starting the Arizona Trail this week!

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And I guess pre-orders are important? You can order it wherever you get your books- a local indie bookstore, a huge box bookstore, target?!!, online, literally wherever. You can get the hardcover, the ebook or the audiobook. I'm so excited it's almost (finally!) in the world! The Sunset Route is notable, according to the New … Continue reading The Sunset Route comes out Tuesday!!

Like all of us, I've had a lot of feelings this year. I spent two months in Alaska this summer, processing these feelings. I made a photo + words zine about it, bc I wanted something offline; the most meaningful connections I've had in 2020, with myself, others and the earth, have been offline. You … Continue reading New Zine: Co-Regulating With the Desert Globemallow