I finally got my butt in the writing seat over the last week or so! The write up of my…
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For this trip, we got up at 5:15 in the morning and got ready to go, often leaving our campsite…
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My ankle is still bugging me. But I managed to take it on a 24 mile backpacking trip and saw…
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Made it to the Big Creek trailhead parking lot. Time to head out. Crossing Smith Creek on the road. The…
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I got a massage last week. I’d been looking forward to it this time especially because I hoped the therapist…
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I got the side of the tent next to some young trees. Without the mesh keeping them out, the branches…
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I tend to be cold. When my husband is stripped down to shorts, pushing me away because my body heat…
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We planned on going to Blackmare Lake, but we had also prepared ourselves for the possibility that it wouldn’t be…
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I don’t feel that I’ve gotten very much done in the last week. I haven’t been getting my butt in…
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Long backpacking trips have a way of changing the way you feel about our place in the world, the way…
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