My husband and I don’t typically camp or backpack over the 4th of July weekend. This year, the holiday fell…
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I slept in again. I remember when sleeping in meant at least 11 am, if not after noon. Now, sleeping…
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I didn’t have any alarms set for the morning to wake me up. Even though I did plan on hiking,…
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Usually, in April and May, Ambrose and I like to get out for a few training hikes. This year, we…
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Breakfast was a breakfast sandwich using King’s Hawaiian bread. I can’t tell you how many times I’d walked by those…
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For the last few years, I’ve been giving money to the Idaho Trails Association to support their work. I’ve even…
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I’m still working on writing up the Hell’s Canyon trip. It was a quick one, but rather chock full of…
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I’m not quite out of the apartment yet, but that’s by choice. I want to hang on to it through the…
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We drove out to Cambridge on Saturday morning. Or, more correctly, we went home to Cambridge. I was driving, and…
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I originally had written a really long blog on this topic, complete with song references, and it was kind of…
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