To celebrate the beginning of Summer, and to take advantage of the long days, I drove up to Massachusetts to knock off a long-held goal of mine, a traverse, and back, of the Blue Hills park. Map is here. The Blue Hills are a 7000 acre preserve just outside Boston, in fact, for much of…
Category: LeaveNoTrace
Comfort items – take an ounce, leave an ounce
(Originally posted on The Trek) As I mentioned before, I’m at the final kitchen-sink phase of packing for the hike. The last few bits and extra things that might come in handy; spare hair elastics, for instance, or a silnylon pouch to help organize all my foot-care stuff. I’ve made some changes to the overall…
LNT Principle 3: Dispose of Waste Properly
(First posted at The Trek) Pack It in, Pack It Out All of the Leave No Trace principles are geared around a common theme, preserving the wildness of the outdoors. Depending on your world view, there’s a number of good reasons for this. Mine are primarily selfish – I want things to stay nice so…
PCT2018 Gear List
(Originally published at The Trek) I have a few purchases left to make, but right now my gear list is pretty solid. Pack weight is just at 13 lbs, and that includes a 1 lb fudge-factor for things like chapstick, extra clothes added at the last minute, the weight of my pen, money, and other…
New Year, New Plan, New Blog
I’ve been invited to write for The Trek, a thruhiking blog site! This new site is going to be the primary source for my PCT musings, but don’t worry, this site will remain, to chronicle my other hiking adventures. I’ll also be cross-publishing my Trek blogs here, so if you want to, stay tuned. …