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My First Holy Shit Day on the PNT
Sarah and I woke to a rainy day at Waterton Lake. Nevertheless, we were greeted by the morning light hitting the mountains surrounding the lake in a stunning way. And just as I was about to leave the lake, I looked up and saw l a magnificent rainbow. Perhaps this was foreboding of a positive
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Day Three Over Stoney Indian Pass
True to the predictions when we picked up pur permits, our third day out was finally sunny. We had been counting on this as we had to cross through Stoney Indian Pass which was purported to still have a lot of snow requiring ice axes and spikes. We also knew we would have some fast
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Starting the PNT
When we arrived at the border of Canada and the United States, it took me a while to process all the cars and people there. This area had been empty when I started the northern half of the CDT in 2021. Then it struck me that back then the border had been closed because of
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Arriving In Glacier
I wound my way from Santa Fe to Glacier National Park via a series of visits with trail friends. My first was with a young woman I met when I was hiking the CDT. Kremlin shared her knowledge of the Arizona Trail with me since she had done it a few years prior. After a
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Embrace the Suck
As you read this, hopefully I’m somewhere out on the PNT. I’m sure I will have encountered some phenomenal scenery. I’m also sure there will have been plenty of times when I’ve had to embrace the suck. Embrace the suck is a motto for thru hikers. Rather than complaining about the hard times, we embrace
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Perceived versus real danger
People are constantly telling me that what I am doing is dangerous. Personally, I think being born is dangerous. From the moment we’re born, we start to die. While I could get hurt or die on the trail, I am sure that being in a car is more dangerous than the hiking I do. On
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