July 2010
2 posts
Ishmael's Photos →
Look at Ishmael’s photos of the trail! Read other PCT accounts.
May 2010
1 post
Vern Takes a Hike →
I am now on day 45 of my hike from Mexico to Canada. Though I always seem to get behind on posting, I am writing and uploading when reception allows. I’m a girly girl who’d never backpacked a day in her life before this…
March 2010
1 post
November 2009
3 posts
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Roots
Upon deciding to hike for 6 months I did not take into account how it might effect every single area of my life. Even down to the roots of my hair. Since 2002 I’ve been avidly coloring my hair. I’ve had about every shade of red in the color spectrum as well as black, brown, blonde, and a mix of other colors. Here is a small sampling of the colors I’ve had over...
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Waterproof
Last year while working in The Bahamas on a film I got unofficially voted the crew member most often in the water. I didn’t tell anyone, but I was secretly honored.
If I believed in reincarnation I know that one of my previous lives must have a been as a fish or a dolphin or a sea otter, or something that belongs in the water.
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say cheese...
Some people may think that all professional photographers this day in age shoot with a fancy shmancy digital SLR. There are a few exceptions to this rule.
The photographer chooses to shoot with film, whether it be medium format, large format, 35mm, pinhole, polaroid, etc. The photographer uses a digital rangefinder camera. The photographer is poor and therefore doesn’t have a D-SLR and...
September 2009
0 posts
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No more foil!
It has happened.
“What???” Mehdi, my friend looked at me with dismay as we waited out a sudden rainstorm together. Underneath the shelter of a bridge that crossed a small Belgian canal we had parked our bikes in order to try to stay dry. We were dry enough that Mehdi was able to pull out his iPod nano in order to begin listening to some tunes. As I mentioned that I didn’t have...
July 2009
3 posts
Library Trip
“But man’s values change as his life changes. The deeper he plunges into the whirlpool of modern living, with its speeding transport, vexing problems, and harassing pressures, the more he prizes the escape of an adventure as old as mankind itself—a solitary walk in the wilds.” (Edwards, Mike W. , “Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail.” The National...
Just another fish in the sea of blogs...
Eight years ago my definition of a blog was having a livejournal. I had one. I was a partially emo kid writing semi-angsty posts, letting my feelings seep into the Internet. Now, I still consider livejournal a blog just as much as any other blog, but blogging has so many more meanings. These days it seems like every business not only needs a regularly updated website, but a blog to go with it,...
North or South
This is not a post on the pros and cons of the North and the South during the civil war. (And no, just because I’m from the South doesn’t mean I fly a rebel flag from the back of a diesel engine Ford pickup truck) Originally we had decided to hike the PCT from North to South, which would make us Southbounders (also commonly known as Sobos). But as of late it is up in the air. I found a...
June 2009
4 posts
Let's Get Some Shoes!
If you don’t know where the phrase “Let’s Get Some Shoes!” is from, you’re even more behind on your You Tube pop culture than I am. My friend Clayton showed me Kelly’s “Shoes” video two years ago. It now has over 27 million views and is one of the most ridiculous videos you can possibly watch complete with shoes, crossdressing, stuffed animals, pool...
Can't Chicken Out Now!
The moment I decided, “I’m going to hike the Pacific Crest Trail” I knew there was only one thing to do.
Tell EVERYONE.
Once I did that I knew it was be mentally impossible for me to back out. People might think I’m a little crazy for going hiking for a good portion of a year, but if I change my mind then they will think I’m a wishy-washy slacker and a chicken with...
Wild Idea
Disclaimer: This is one long entry that can be summed up here:
I’ve started this blog now because it is roughly one year before we begin the Pacific Crest Trail, Southbound. But I don’t know what I’m doing…YET, so you can read-a-long as I try drying my own food, taste every food bar out there to see what is good and what isn’t, buy equipment, pick out clothing for...
It begins.