The Mountains are Calling
Ramblings about writing, hiking, and the outdoors
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Feathers on the water
I bought my first kayak when I lived in Florida. A folding boat with a rubber bottom, it involved sweaty gymnastics to put together while slapping mosquitoes. Many, many curses were heard. I used it to run interference between swimmers and...
I finished the Arizona Trail
Let's be clear up front: I don't have vast reserves of any of those three things. This trail tried to get me to quit numerous times. With rattlesnakes, with scorching heat and no shade, with steep climbs and sketchy descents, with routefind...
Too many places I've got to see
Do any of you feel it?
It's invisible but strong. Steel? No, something more flexible, sinewy. Rope, although rope can fray. It can be burnt. I'm not sure what it is. But it's there.
I'm currently in a hotel room in Flagstaff. My bones ach...
Things I carried in the backcountry
- Potatoes. Yes, potatoes! We wrapped them in foil and cooked them over a fire on the Florida trail. (We had just spent the entire day sloshing through knee deep water. Wildfires were not a concern.) In my defense, I was twenty-two, and th...
Better this winter. Maybe.
Up here, the sun is abandoning us, turning us over to the long darkness. The indifferent moon.
It's not as long as when I lived in Alaska, but it still feels cruel. Time to settle in, people say. The end of the tourists. And the beginning...
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I hike long distance trails, write books, and try to force adventure into as much time as I have (never enough).
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