Tag: Trail Culture

Wonderland Trail: Backpacking Permit Dream or Nightmare?

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 […]

Trail Names: What Will You Be Called?

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 […]