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Saying goodbye
As my time in Santa Fe was drawing to a close, I was surprised to find I was feeling nostalgic about the desert. I grew up on the East Coast and love the greenery. While I have enjoyed hiking the desert sections of the Continental Divide Trail, the PCT and the Arizona Trail, I never
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Being Seen
I mentioned before that Santa Fe has laws about what color the houses can be painted. There are a few gray ones but most of the dwellings are some shade of brown. Today on my walk I noticed that some of the houses had blue doors and window frames. Others had red roofs. I laughed
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Planning, Part Two
People often want to know what I eat on the trail so I’m going to start with that here. I’ve gotten pretty good at calculating how much food I need every day. I dehydrate a lot of my food and especially like my dehydrated dinners which include eggplant Parmesan with organic whole wheat pasta, orange
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Getting Prepared
I thought I would share with you some of the steps I’ve been going through to plan for this next hike. When I first started hiking, planning a long distance hike was much harder because I didn’t have the advantage of all the information to be found on the Internet. Luckily for me, most of
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Back to my Car
My plan had been to spend that first day off the Arizona Trail hiking in a slot canyon before catching a ride out the following morning. When I first planned on hiking this canyon, I didn’t realize it was the same one I had hiked from end to end a number of years ago. Knowing
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Last Miles on the AZT
I managed to connect with a trail angel via text. She said she could pick me up in three days at the terminus. Since she was driving in the next morning to pick up another hiker, she would leave some water at the terminus with my name on it. Those arrangements would allow time for
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