In March 2019, one month before beginning a thru-hiking on the Appalachian Trial, I took time to write down my thoughts… Here they are… Excitement. Anticipation. Nervousness. Confusion. Stress. My mid-April start for thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail seemed forever away. This date that was looming over my remaining time in Atlanta was so distant. I […]
The Wonderland Trail is a big, 93 mile loop hike around Mt. Rainer in Washington. My friend and I decided that walking in a big circle for 10+ days sounded like a good way to spend a vacation. Due to the popularity of this hike, the National Park Service assigns permits for each group planning […]
William Shakespeare once wrote in his famous play Romeo and Juliet, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” The only reason we call a rose a ‘rose’ is because someone over the course of history decided to assign a specific word to a specific thing. Curse words are similar. They are only […]
Come on an adventure with me. There it is… We finally made it to the tree line. An increasingly dense pine wilderness lies behind us. Ahead of us, the trail winds through a wilderness of brownish-gray boulders… to higher and higher elevations where plants can no longer survive. What awaits us across the boulder field […]
Scientifically (and very simply stated), rain is the part of the water cycle where evaporated H2O forms droplets that become too heavy for the clouds to hold, so the droplets are released and fall to the ground. Physically, rain is something that can ruin your hair, your shoes, and your electronics, but it also helps […]
“This is my personal goal because nothing is impossible.” This is part of a message that was written on the Siler Gap Shelter. This note was written by Medicine Man on day 15 of his Appalachian Trail journey. In his message, he was referring to the long walk from Georgia to Maine. It was written […]
The following was written in November 2017: It has been 82 days since myself and the five other Storm Runners have exited the John Muir Trail. Rather, it might be truer to say it has been 82 days since I have physically exited the trail. Mentally, I will never be the same. There is something […]