[Please note that this was originally posted on 4.24.19 here. Hiawatha Hiking Company is our new business!] From 2004 to 2010, I wasn’t very physically fit. I had finished high school, went to college, got a master’s degree, and got a job. Regular exercise just wasn’t on my radar. I would have considered myself fairly […]
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[Please note that this was originally posted on 3.8.19 here. Hiawatha Hiking Company is our new business!] Recipe for (Mis)Adventure Oftentimes when I mention to someone that I thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in 2016-2017 with my husband, Domonick, they ask if we were married at the time. I can’t help but smile and say,
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A Clean Place Tokyo is one of the cleanest cities I’ve ever been in. No plastic grocery bags blowing in the streets. No black globs of gum on the sidewalk. No McDonald’s wrappers blowing over storm drains. Yet I can’t remember seeing any trash cans on the streets. Domonick and I were eating a plastic-wrapped
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The first few days out of Stehekin were a a hot mess, made significantly more miserable by the nearly continuous 25 miles of ascent to Cutthroat Pass. “I think we’ll need to institute a siesta hour during the late afternoon if this heat keeps up,” Carolyn suggested. “I know. I feel like I’m melting,” I
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A thick milky haze hung over everything like a dense fog. It was chalky white, like what static would look like if it had a shape and face, and we could barely see the trees that lined Route 2 as we sat in the packed bus headed towards Stevens Pass. Canada was having a tough
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Lava is hard to walk on. No, not molten lava, the kind that spits orange magma into the air like in Hawaii (you would certainly injure yourself quite badly…or die), but lava that has been cooled and hardened for thousands of years. It’s impressive a trail was even built through it. The mostly hollow rock,
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It’s been eight straight days and 150 miles of sweat, misquitoes, dust and forest fires. Oregon is dry. Really dry. And hot. Very hot. Clouds are all but absent here, as if they were somehow sucked out of the sky by some large Hoover vacuum, leaving one blinding shade of perfectly clear indigo sky to
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The video is complete and I’m happy to finally share it. I’m really pleased with how it turned out and hope you like it too. Please share with your friends if you dig it and subscribe to my YouTube channel (it helps to generate more visibility for my channel on YouTube). The footage was all
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It has been nearly three months since we got off the Pacific Crest Trail. I can’t believe it was that long ago. I can’t believe we spent five months in the woods. I can’t believe I hiked 2,300 miles in one season. I can’t believe what an amazing experience it was. It was the most
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I’m currently working on an edit of all the footage I captured hiking the PCT this year. I don’t plan on releasing anything until late next year after we are able to crank out the last miles and I have time to edit the last bits, but in the meantime, I put together a short