Doctor. Aspiring writer. Seeker of adventures. Lover of the mountains, dogs, physiology, and old books; happiest when outside. Embarking on a Southbound pilgrimage of the PCT in 2018 in memory of a dear friend lost. Also looking forward to eating lots of cheese.
Posts
Why You Should Section Hike the PCT
Or, why semantics are silly and you should just get on the trail.This is not a knock on thru-hiking. For 2.5 months, I pretended to be a
The Obligatory Gear Post
There’s no two ways about it, thru-hikers (and hopefuls, like myself) are obsessed with gear. We like to blog about it, read about it, watch YouTube
Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Lessons Learned Alone in the Grand Canyon
As a child, I had a picture book chronicling the adventures of Donald Duck and his three nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, on a camping trip in the
Learning by Doing in the Big Ditch: A Solo Trek of the Escalante Route
The Grand Canyon is the type of place that you can't understand or appreciate from a single vantage point. In photos, it looks so vast that it's
The Then, the When, and the Now
For the past 7 months, I’ve been living in two worlds: in one, it’s July 2018, and I’m on the trail. The names of alliterative resupply towns float