by admin | Jul 17, 2018 | blog
Six and a half years ago, at the ripe young age of 23, I was a different man. I was living in Kansas, grossly overweight, and seeing a psychiatrist for issues including what was diagnosed as bipolar depression. The shrink was prescribing to me an anti-psychotic...
by admin | Jul 10, 2018 | blog
Inundated A poem written by Craig Dixon I knelt beside the little stream All this time peering into the water’s gleam It shimmered and danced down the meandering steps Like a beautiful sunfish in the ocean’s depth I watched it corrode the soil therein As if purging...
by admin | Jul 6, 2018 | blog
At a glance we trail workers are rough around the edges. We’re dirty, smelly, and sunburnt. We cuss and spit. We heckle each other for fun. Beyond the roughness, we are can-do people. Optimists. Visionaries, even. We look at a steep pitch, an eroding hillside, an...
by admin | Jul 3, 2018 | blog
It is my pleasure to explain to those who aren’t familiar with what a wag bag is. Or even better the exciting contents found inside! To start I’ll explain proper LNT practices when pooping above tree line. Human waste takes much longer to break down up in alpine zones...
by admin | Jun 29, 2018 | blog
Allow me, if you will, one second to paint a quick metaphor: your body as a hiker is a vehicle, a finely tuned machine that carries you up and down treacherous stretches and summits. Your respiratory and circulatory systems serve as the engine, fueled by the food you...