March 2022

[photos and reference links coming in May] Slept along Kane Creek, tucked at the foot of a 1,000-foot sandstone cliff, atop its rubble pile with the snaking road below. (Later in the morning I walk past a sign about BASE jumping in this canyon; I wonder when was the last time someone jumped off my […]

[photos and links coming in May] Ice cream for breakfast at the Lazy Lizard. Now I have a Talenti jar for cold-soak meals and a bit of extra water storage. Scrubbed a layer of congealed sweat off my skin, charged everything, and away we go! Except that I ended up not leaving the hostel til

[photos and links coming in May] Woke at 0500 just like yesterday. Full moon, bright enough to walk, considered breaking camp. Again like yesterday, instead I fell asleep and woke at 830, long past dawn. I dreamed my charging cable broke (it’s hanging on by a metallic thread). The sky is a very dry clear

[photos and reference links coming in May] Snow!!! On my first night! Woke around 5 to find the already too-low tarp pressing down on my quilt, both slick with water. Like I said, the lessons are coming thick and fast. I’m barely a mile from tourist trail and already feel very much “out there.” From

[photos and reference links coming in May] …….or snoozing in a motel room. Mom, Dad and H left for Denver at 0630 today. We all gave each other a big group hug, I took a stupidly underexposed picture of them, and they drove off in the dark. I decided to catch a few extra hours

The Hayduke is, in my opinion, step-for-step the most adventurous 800-mile walk one can do in the contiguous USA. If you want to know why I’m doing this and you don’t have more time, that’s why. (And if you disagree on the title of Most Adventurous, I would love to know your pick!) In the