At a class IV Rapid on the Connecticut River during my Source to Sea Paddle

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  • Preparing for a Thru Hike Then and Now: Food and Fuel Resupply

    People ask me what it is like to prepare for a long hike and how it has changed over time. While there is no one answer that fits for every person or even every hike, there are some common dominators. Some of these have not changed since I began long distance hiking almost 50 years

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  • Thank You

    A quick message to say thank you to all of you who want to support my writing. I spent almost all of today, figuring out how to do the upgrade and make things work with WordPress. Literally, I spent at least ten hours on it. I also went to the post office to mail my

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  • Shall I Keep Blogging

    I am about to set off on the florida trail and have just discovered that my storage space for a free wordpress account is all used up. To get three more GB it would cost me about $50 per year plus taxes etc and to get 13 GB it would cost 100 per year. Having

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  • The Next Adventure Begins

    This blog is going to be different than most. There’s so much I want to say and write but I’ve been putting off the writing until I felt I had the brain power and focus. Unfortunately that never works with writing. Writing really is work of some sort and like any other work, putting it

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  • My Crazy Endeavor

    I’ve never been a fan of hiking with earphones, preferring instead to listen to the sounds of nature around me. I was also concerned about using up the battery on my phone if I was listening to a podcast while hiking. However, I know that listening to something while walking can make the miles go

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  • The Importance of Friends

    I view the time I spent when I first got home, staring for way too many hours at the computer screen, as a kind of percolating, waiting for my internal system to catch up with my external body in the major transition it had to make from thru hiking to relative inactivity. It was the

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