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⁣Last night, my Ford Ranger, aka my home for the past several years, was stolen just outside San Diego with literally ALL my earthly possessions in it. ⁣
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My sony camera, lenses, laptop, hiking, camping and climbing gear, personal journals, passport

After exactly five months, my journey to hike from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail is finally complete. It will be years before I will ever fully know what this experience has and will mean to me, to discover how I have grown, strengths e

Thru-hiking has been a full system recalibration. In a society where gratification is promised at an instant, and often shallow, chemical, and fleeting at that, prolonged traverses through the natural world is rehab for the mind and soul. The joys o

How quickly we can go from being someone stressing for months about buying the best gear and shelters that give us a sense of security and comfort, to being someone who falls asleep alone, in the dirt, under the open sky, miles from civilization, wit

Wild to think that you can walk 1,700 miles over 3 months and still be in the same state. And that single state be home to experiences of all extremes. 1,700 miles of hiking through some of the hottest days on record and nights that make your water b

We’ve been warned that this will likely be one of the worst fire seasons yet, and just within the past week several new fires have popped up in Northern California affecting travel on the PCT. This past weekend, a fire close to the trail explod

The nature of a cross country 2,650 mile trail necessitates an occasional crossroad of wild paths with civilization. After a super exposed twenty plus mile section of desert, we escaped intense sandblasting, tent-collapsing winds for a night where th

[Pacific Crest Trail — “Free” 🦅]⁣⁣
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The trail strips you down to the most basic essentials, in almost every way. In your pack, you carry only what you need— food, water, shelter. In your thought and action, most of your dai

I’M THRU-HIKING THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL!⁣
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A little over one month ago I took my first steps into fulfilling a lifelong dream, to attempt a thru-hike of one of America’s great scenic long trails, the Pacific Crest Trail. The PCT runs 2,6

Reminiscing about international adventures past, yet hesitant still to let myself start fantasizing about ones to come. If there was a word for nostalgia but in the opposite direction in time, a wistful longing for plans that never came to fruition,

It’s been a month since the attempted coup in Washington, and now we’re watching a more serious one happen in Myanmar. Although different on many fronts, I can’t help but draw some parallels in my mind, with similar baseless claims

Scenes from a quiet, but incomparable Inauguration Day in DC.