(This blog entry is from my Patreon blog, where you can see my Adventure Blog entries before anywhere else while supporting my trade and craft. Along… Read More »Strength and Smokescreens – Bishop to Vermillion Valley Resort
(This blog entry is from my Patreon blog, where you can see my Adventure Blog entries before anywhere else while supporting my trade and craft. Along… Read More »Into the Wilderness – Walker Pass to Kennedy Meadows
(This blog entry is from my Patreon blog, where you can see my PCT blog entries before anywhere else, as well as support me financially… Read More »Cutting My Losses
(This blog entry is from my Patreon blog, where you can see my PCT blog entries before anywhere else, as well as support me financially… Read More »Coming to a Close + Where I’m Going From Here
ESCAPE FROM MOJAVE Last time we met our hero, they were recovering from heat exhaustion in Hiker Town, just outside of Mojave, CA. It was… Read More »Persistence Creates Toughness
So, let’s talk about how much I hate the desert. I grew up in Michigan, where the winters are characteristically cold and dry, with at… Read More »Actual Trudging
Here I am, in Palmdale. Yet again I’ve caught something and I’m down for the count. At least this time I knew what I came… Read More »Build a Bridge and Get Over It
Day 21 Believe it or not, it’s actually difficult for me to write romantically about things I’m currently experiencing. This is probably why for the… Read More »It’s always something isn’t it?
Two Weeks, Over 100 miles in. Multiple sunburns, poison Oak, several heat rashes, and more bug bites than you can shake a stick at. One… Read More »Stomp The Stress Away
I don’t even know what day of the hike this is. Let’s see, if we started on April 30th and today is May 11th… this… Read More »But It Builds Character, Right?