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Madeline Newel

I'm Madeline, but my trail name is Photon. After years of dreaming about it while I was in college in New York City, I finally thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in 2018. I'm scheming another thru-hike, but in the meantime, I'm studying agroecology in Santa Cruz, California.