travel light, wake early, walk far
Jen and I had ordered up a particularly hectic October, moving at the beginning of the month and going to Nepal at the end; I told people I should be receiving extra points for backpacking just three or four days after moving everything I own from one apartment to another. It was a minor miracle... Continue Reading →
“So, at that point, we were scattered all over the countryside. Emily and Janice had pulled over to camp near Blackwell; Holly was at a hotel in Jersey Shore after getting her leg stitched up; Spider-Man, Logan, Reid, WB, and I had climbed back up the plateau north of Blackwell … Oh, and no one... Continue Reading →
For this Memorial Day weekend, we decided to undertake the “third march” of my second MST section hike, which we’ve been doing in slightly longer chunks than we did for the first iteration. This section of roughly 100 kilometers or 62 miles would take us from just north of 322 (Stillhouse Hollow Road) to just... Continue Reading →
In the lead up to this trip, the weather report got worse pretty much every time we looked at it. The weather people seem to me to always be predicting the apocalypse and under delivering, but it certainly seemed as if we were looking at a wet weekend. Thursday, I did something I’ve not done... Continue Reading →
When you start telling people that you want an adventure, you really can’t complain when what you get is, in fact, an adventure, right? Some time ago, I decided that I wanted to reprise my section hike of the Mid State Trail, that epic footpath across the center of Pennsylvania, which DC UL had done... Continue Reading →
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