Last week, I permanently deleted my Facebook account. I had been on the service for nearly 12 years, and over the last four years I had become very active in administering hiking groups, following the news of the day, and getting into a lot of pointless arguments with people I don't know personally. At one …
Fresh off of a re-commitment to blogging, I set out for a moderate hike at one of my favorite stomping grounds, Palomar Mountain State Park. This was partially a test to see how my still-inflamed Achilles bursa would respond to a more significant hike, but I also went with the intention of hiking mindfully. At …
One of the newly dominant themes in my life has been a quest to find more age-appropriate human interactions. Most of my interactions with other humans over the past year have occurred in the company of a toddler. As good as he is at using sign language to indicate that I'm pooping when I go …
A busy May saw me rack up 112.8 miles on (and sometimes off) trail, with 21,780 feet of elevation gain over the span of 18 hikes and 59 hours. This was the heaviest month of hiking I've had in some time, but that was far from the only hiking-related nonsense I got up to this …
Many moons ago, I started this blog to record adventures I had begun taking on my quest to hike 1,000 miles in a calendar year. Since 2012, I've hiked over 7,000 miles, but I stopped recording adventures - at least in any personal sense - when I began writing for Modern Hiker. The sort of …
At some point, every one of us runs headlong into some kind of obstacle that we assume is insurmountable. Perhaps it's a lack of money, a physical handicap, a time constraint, or a lack of ability. Whatever the case, this obstacle can stop us cold and discourage us into taking a hard right turn toward …
Continue reading "Adventures in Guide Booking, Part 2: Maps"
Back in the day when I lived in the Conejo Valley, I did an awful lot of ground stomping throughout Pt. Mugu State Park and the adjacent Boney Mountain State Wilderness. Of all the places in the Lands of my People, I think that I love La Jolla Valley's rippling grasslands, purple and hummingbird sages, …
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Note: This article is not intended as a "how-to" for nature writing. It's only function is to elucidate my own idiosyncratic methods of transcribing the experience of hiking a trail into clear instructions. Hiking writing is perhaps the single most enjoyable activity I've ever engaged in, at least as far as professional activities go. While …
During March 2016, I hiked 9 times, covering 92 miles and gaining 19,300' of gain. Where I lacked in quantity, I made up for in quality, as my average distance for each hike was 10.2 miles. Three major hikes and one moderate hike accounted for the majority of the miles I put in. On my two …
“Guys, where’s my food?” Just as I was putting the last odds and ends into my pack, I realized that I could not find the food that I had packed for the trip up to Dawns Peak. The trip had already gotten off to an inauspicious start, as I spilled a gallon of water that …
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