I know that some people think that food intolerances aren't real. But if I eat gluten, dairy or soy I shit my brains out, and I know I'm not alone in this. Lots of people can't properly digest one or more of these things. Having diarrhea on the trail makes hiking pretty hard, and I've … Continue reading Basically I Eat Potato Chips: Thru-Hiking With The Most Common Food Intolerances
Pacific crest trail
anatomy of a resupply box
Clockwise from jerky: flattened dried bananas, tea/emergen-c/electrolytes, fish oil, multivitamin, rice krispie treat, cocaine (jk it's magnesium powder), chocolate protein powder, gf oreos, chia seeds, banana chips, prunes, bars, nutz, dried peas, dried spinach, raisins, granola #1, granola #2, dried split pea soup (alternates with dried refried beans and dried curried lentil soup), more bars, … Continue reading anatomy of a resupply box
wherein the convoluted tornado of chaos resolves itself into something resembling a shape
I've been carrying around this wild tornado of space-time all hacked up into bits, organized on to-do lists but not existing, yet, the future a mighty weight dependent on my own minute-by-minute choices and the organizational capabilities of my own damn brain. Now the future has a shape, it fills out space-time in a voluminous … Continue reading wherein the convoluted tornado of chaos resolves itself into something resembling a shape
procrastination/anticipation
Anxiety on top of anxiety. I fly south to San Diego from Portland in three weeks, and all of my irrational fears about the trail (something is going to go horribly wrong, the trail is going to turn into a wall of fire, western civilization is going to collapse into a police state RIGHT when … Continue reading procrastination/anticipation
My public service announcement to the PCT class of 2014
To everyone who's hiking the trail this year: I know you guys are really busy right now, and you're really excited. You've got homemade bars to vacuum pack and gear spreadsheets to make. You haven't yet found the perfect windshirt (what is a windshirt, anyway?) and your permits have yet to come in the mail. … Continue reading My public service announcement to the PCT class of 2014
Food on the PCT
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
After the trail: November in 1,357 words
(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
After the trail: The return of the existential despair
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
After the trail: Home and other abstract concepts
September 25 I wake in the night when my calves seize up and I jerk from my sleeping bag and stretch them in the dark room, trying to stop the cramp. I've been getting charlie horses every night for the last few weeks and now I'm still getting them, even though I'm no longer on … Continue reading After the trail: Home and other abstract concepts
After the trail: Hitching back into the US
(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
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