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PCT 2013

Day 156: Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart

January 3, 2014April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn / 22 Comments

September 23 Mileage 20 Mile 2648 to mile 2668

Day 140: Salvation

December 10, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn / 2 Comments

September 7 Mileage 23 Mile 2350 to mile 2373

As-promised photos of Goat Rocks

December 4, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn / 2 Comments

These photos all taken by Ramen, not me. Thanks Ramen! And how ironic is it that my phone/camera dies on one of the most beautiful parts of the ENTIRE TRAIL?

Day 123: What even goes there

November 4, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn

August 21 Mileage 27.5 Mile 1994.6 to mile 2022 plus 1.5 miles to Big Lake Youth Camp . .

Day 111: The moving sidewalk is real

October 17, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn

August 9 Mileage 30.5 Mile 1727.5 to mile 1757.5 (plus .5 miles to camp)

Day 106: The Road

October 12, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn / 5 Comments

August 4 Mileage 22.5 Mile 1662 to mile 1684.5 . . . . .

Day 99: climbing and the infinite wisdom of yogi teabags

October 6, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn / 2 Comments

July 28 Mileage 14 Mile 1506.5 to mile 1520.5 . .

Day 91: Ass chafe and laundry-room bunkbeds

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

July 20 Mileage 19 Mile 1365 to mile 1383 plus 1 mile to water . . . . .

Day 88: Slow and humid and slow

August 7, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn / 3 Comments

July 17 Mileage 22.5 Mile 1295 to mile 1316.5 + 1 mile to water . . . .

Day 87: Oh Belden and the glory of the Braatens

August 7, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn

July 16 Mileage 15 Mile 1280 to mile 1295 . . .

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Bunny and I are in Fairbanks, Alaska. Tomorrow we fly back to the Arctic- from Fairbanks to Bettles on a small plane and then, on an even smaller plane, just big enough for the two of us, the pilot and our gear, we fly from Bettles to near the headwaters of the Noatak river in Gates of the Arctic National Park. At the Noatak we’ll offload twenty five days of food as well as our two inflatable kayaks and two steel bear barrels, wave goodbye as the plane lifts into the sky, inflate our boats and begin our paddle to the Chukchi sea. * I have only ever been in a kayak for a few hours. Bunny was a whitewater kayak guide. The Noatak is supposed to be chill- class one and two. Except for when the water is high or low, according to the old timer at the gear store who used to guide there. Hopefully the water will just be regular for us? Real hot summer never did come to the Alaskan arctic and interior this year. I arrived in Fairbanks yesterday to rain. The forecast is all over the place. I’m going to learn a lot in the approximately 360 miles we’ll paddle to the Chukchi sea, that’s for sure. * I won’t have reception until I come back mid august, and then I’ll have three weeks of blog posts for yall. The river part of our trip is much more of a sure bet than the walking part was this year of extra rain, and I’m looking forward to having something go well. We shall see! * We’ve raised $6,800 for @defendthesacredak ! Thank you so much to everyone who donated! Click the link in my profile to peep the fundraiser, or their website. This org is like nothing else, and I'm so excited to be raising money from them. I particularly like their vision, it makes me feel weepy, in a good way: * "We envision an Alaska that is guided by Indigenous knowledge and place-based knowledge in a post-oil economy." * And thanks to everyone who ordered one of my zines. If you missed your chance, don't worry- I'll likely do another printing in the fall!

UPDATE: Ordering has closed. All zines have shipped via media mail. Thanks everyone for your orders!✨I made a zine yall!✨Long Distance Hiking Zine issue 1 is a 40 page, 20k word collection of some of my favorite hiking writing I've ever done- and it comes with TEN smol prints from the hikes contained therein!!!⛰ UPDATE: orders have closed.

The next day we hiked to the top of Mt Marathon in Seward. I had forgotten that this was a hard hike, and we didn't bring any snacks and only a little water. Seward was having a heat wave- eighty whole degrees! And I had never seen these mountains in such full, unbridaled sun. The last time I did this hike it was foggy and the view from the top had been muted- this time we could see all the way to the end of Resurrection bay and a small bit of the open ocean and it was literally the best view I have seen in my entire life, and I felt drunk on it. We were hungry, but we found some trail mix someone had dumped in the dirt on the summit and we brushed off the almonds and ate them. I tried to gather the discarded MnMs but they were too warm from the sun and they melted into the earth when I touched them. The golden raisins were beyond salvageable. We'd taken the hiker's trail to the summit, and now we took the race route down (there is a race to the top of this mtn every year). It was a neverending scree field, and so we "screed", all the way back down to tiny Seward way below, little rows of houses on an alluvial fan next to the glacier-fed bay.

@muffyjdavis on our hike in Resurrection bay to Caines head 😍

After hanging at her cabin in the interior for a few days, Tara drove Bunny and I 6 hours south to Anchorage (my friends are the nicest ppl?!) and Bunny flew back to Oregon to hang there until our Noatak trip starts- and I picked @muffyjdavis up at the airport!! (She and Bunny literally got on and off the same plane.) Muffy had never been to Alaska, nor had she ever been backpacking, altho she's currently prepping for a monthlong trip in August. We climbed a mtn in the fog w Tara and then decided to hike the Resurrection Pass trail, from Hope to Cooper Landing. The Kenai Peninsula, a generally cool and rainy place, was having a heat wave, and we spent two days in blissed out sunshine in resplendant alpine meadows on some beautiful tread, wherein Muffy got a hundred mosquito bites and declared that she loved being dirty and sleeping on the ground. Afterward we hitched to Seward and got a ride in an RV (!!), an experience that would repeat itself multiple times during what would turn out to be the best hitching luck of my life (literally bc Muffy is so hot) (until our hitching luck ran out at the end, but that's another story). In Seward we hiked along Resurrection bay to Caines head, and everything smelled like the sea.

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