The Fox Wedding
The mosquitoes were worse than I had ever experienced. I could see their abdomens swell with blood and turn red as they sucked from my...
It Was a Trail of Innumerable Meanings
Climbing up from Six Horse Spring towards Windigo Pass I began to feel intensely dizzy - my vision blurred and became foggy and I wavered...
His Thoughts Were Unstained
I became lost in thought - past grievances, people who had wronged me in some way, the frustrations of previous jobs. They were all...
He Has No Comfort Owing Him From Anywhere
As thru-hikers often do, I had hiked until it grew dark and set up camp wherever I happened to find myself; in this case not far from...
Oregon
The trail led me through meadows and past a derelict cabin with a corrugated tin roof curling up and missing in several places. I entered...
There's a Line of Men Along the Border Hating Canada Because it Stopped Them
The remainder of the day was one long descent, mostly under tree cover, down towards the small town of Seiad Valley. At one point I...
When They Sleep in the Woods Again, They Will Not be so Proud
I packed up and made my way back to Ammirati's and then across the road to the interstate on-ramp, intent on hitching in to Mount Shasta....
Obligatory John Muir Quote
Dry and brittle leaves crunched under my feet - leaves once green and hanging over the heads of last year's thru-hikers. They too must...
Our Father Who Art in Nature
Mack and the boys are the Beauties, the Virtues, the Graces ... Mack and the boys avoid the trap, walk around the poison, step over the...
July Fourth
I passed along Twin Lakes and stopped at its shores to fill my water bottles. The water's edge proved too shallow to submerge my bottles...