Off-trail, I like numbers and charts. On-trail, I feel no differently. Quantifying aspects of my hikes made them feel more manageable to me, and thus more doable. Music and Audiobooks for Better Hiking on the PCT.

The Big Walks Club website was set up to record my mountain adventures and was originally inspired by the Ken Wilsons wonderful Big Walks and Classic Climbs books. The site will hopefully also inspire and help others enjoy their own mountain experiences. The site provides information about expeditions being planned, as well as reports and photographs from previous trips. Are posted on the website as they happen.

Sharon is using her vacation days to murder our children. I am certain of this. Back in May, she unfolded a map across our dining room table, mindless of the syrup drops and those tiny, dried end-bits of steamed broccoli that somehow escape from our childrens dinner plates like green photons from an alien sun. A summer idea, she said. She did not say, but it was understood. Youre insane, I said. From tree line to tree line? I looked .

Dianne Fallon, The Maniacal Traveler. Random-esque but ultimatley connected posts on travel, history, hiking, and more. A dog tries to comfort a soldier who has died. Another dead soldier has fallen on the left side of the protective mother. And then there was an election.

Sharon is using her vacation days to murder our children. I am certain of this. Back in May, she unfolded a map across our dining room table, mindless of the syrup drops and those tiny, dried end-bits of steamed broccoli that somehow escape from our childrens dinner plates like green photons from an alien sun. A summer idea, she said. She did not say, but it was understood. Youre insane, I said. From tree line to tree line? I looked .

Sharon is using her vacation days to murder our children. I am certain of this. Back in May, she unfolded a map across our dining room table, mindless of the syrup drops and those tiny, dried end-bits of steamed broccoli that somehow escape from our childrens dinner plates like green photons from an alien sun. A summer idea, she said. She did not say, but it was understood. Youre insane, I said. From tree line to tree line? I looked .