Don't take it. Well, maybe. Growing up in Michigan, I like to believe that I
know snow pretty well. What's wet, icy, slippery, grippy, what you can walk on
top of and what you sink up to your knees in.
There is this spot along the
A short, Asian man approached me early in the morning as I was walking into town
from my tent in Mount San Jacinto State Park. It was around 6:30 AM. I had seen
this person before from a distance, but had never met or spoken to him. As far
Today is the day before I leave for California. I'm sitting on the floor in the
middle of the living room right now. Waiting. I can see the future, but I have
to wait for what seems like an eternity before I can meet it.
In the meantime,
When someone tells you they are going to quit their job, leave their family and friends, leave everything behind to put on a backpack and walk from Mexico to Canada, it begs the question Why?
In truth, most people actually seem to avoid asking me why I'm attempting
The PCT Long Distance Permit application form went live today, January 24 at
10:30 PST. And then it melted down into a puddle of Error 522 web server could
not be reached, or something like that.
When the web server finally came back up, my first permit submission for
Spreadsheets are likely an unrecognized plight of modern man. I do not like
spreadsheets, Sam I am. I would not make them in a box, I would not make them
with a fox.
I just spent hours putting together a spreadsheet that includes 103 possible
resupply points, their distance from
When I posted the introductory post to this blog, I linked to an overview of the trail hosted on Wikipedia. I didn't think much of it at the time — all I could think about was "First post! Yay!"
It wasn't until the next day
There's always something I shouldn't have packed. I heard someone once say that
you pack your fears. I've been trying to keep that in the forefront of my mind
as I whittle away at my gear that I expect to carry with me at