Tag: hiking
Every time I make plans further out than a few weeks it gives me pause. Especially during a year like 2020. It just, well, reminds me of lying in the hospital knee-jerking to my defense mechanism of making lists and reciting my work schedule. One of my nurses told me…
2020, yeah, everyone gets it. Personally, I am waiting for frogs to rain from the sky. Any minute now. Here they come. But in the meantime, tonight, I am thinking about all my solo camping and local hiking trips from this summer. One of my colleagues calls these “micro-adventures.” I’ve…
Everyone is in the same boat this year, at least those of us lucky enough to still be floating, precariously, above water. 2020 has been a sinkhole of emotional despair for me, however. Mainly from the sheer isolation of it all. I canceled all of my backpacking trips this year…
Well, after a good deal of thought, and quite a bit of help from my friends and colleagues, I have made the choice to come back from the brink here. Not the edge of disaster mind you, but the decision to retract inward. That desire was strong in the face…
This is a pretty entertaining article on the most haunted campgrounds in the States on Outdoors magazine’s site. Note the cool mention of albino trees. I never knew that was a thing! Anyway, as I am getting ready for a venture down to Zaleski State Forest the weekend of November…
I had fallen behind in my Yellow Bird boxes lately. It’s been a busy week all around. But I wanted to use the bunch of Bok Choy, purple kale, the last of my hot peppers, barley and thyme in a Ribollita inspired stew today. Ingredients 1 large bunch of purple…
It was late afternoon on Saturday this past weekend, the second day of my first hiking trip through the Northern part of the Dolly Sods. We were pounding out 20 some miles that day in order to cut the trip short. My partner was suffering from some seriously lousy foot…