Start: Lutsen Ski Area End: Kadunce River Campsite Day 13-15 mileage: 46.7 miles Total mileage: 220.4 miles I hated to leave the room, but I got hiking a little before 8am. There was a drizzle, high winds, and it was in the 40’s, so generally miserable. It was a couple hours before I saw anyone […]
Start: East Branch Baptism River Campsite End: Lutsen Ski Area Day 10-12 mileage: 45.6 miles (plus 1.8 mile Oberg Mountain Spur Trail) Total mileage: 173.7 miles It rained all night (It’s not a backpacking trip unless you pack up a wet tent at least twice). Today I went through Crosby-Manitou State Park and yes, it
Start: Silver Bay (Penn Blvd.) End: East Branch Baptism River Campsite Day 7-9 mileage: 33.4 miles Total mileage: 128.1 miles We decided to take a “zero” day and the morning was spent touring the grounds of the Split Rock Lighthouse which we saw from afar the day before. It was beautiful and the caretaker’s home
Start: Reeves Falls Campsite End: Silver Bay parking area Day 4-6 Mileage: 48.6 miles Total Mileage: 94.7 miles On Day 4, we awoke feeling sticky and gross. One of the worst feelings I’ve experienced is putting on my damp, smelly adventure shirt in the morning. After a few days, it begins to smell like a
Start: Martin Road End: Reeves Falls Campsite Day 0-3 Mileage: 46.1 miles Total Mileage: 46.1 miles After spending a lot of the past six months feeling like a doormat and dealing with the stresses of life, I decided it was time to answer the call of Minnesota’s Sawtooth Mountains. A traditional thru-hike of the Superior
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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Read my 7-year update here. Moving On It’s been nearly 4.5 months since the end of my Mississippi River trip and subsequently the end of nearly two years of traveling. It’s hard to imagine that all of that has come and gone. It seems like only yesterday that Carolyn and I were planning to quit
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I developed a guide about paddling the Mississippi River a little while ago (click here to view it). If your thinking about paddling the river you will find some information that may be helpful for planning your trip. I am working on a GPS file that I should have completed (hopefully) by the beginning of
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The worst thing that has ever happened to me in my running career was sitting in a canoe for two and a half months on the Mississippi River. I went from a state of peak fitness to something that resembled a loose sack of Russet potatoes. 75 days away from walking of any kind, let
A Return to Running Read More »