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Climbing Mount Shasta and (almost) summitting
I reach for my GPS watch to check on the time. 12:55am on Sunday, May 27 2012. While others down in the valley or pretty much anywhere else are either out partying or asleep, I am wrapped in a sleeping...
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Backpacking in Rocky Mountain National Park with REI
The Rocky Mountain National Park encompasses 415 miles of terrain in north-central Colorado, the state famous for it’s outdoor adventures right on your doorstep and the 54 fourteeners. Since I had...
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Remnants of the past: Hiking in Big Sur
“This is not a trail!”, my friend Ethan noted quite truthfully, pushing another thick brush aside. We were lost. Well, we weren’t lost in the closest sense of the word. We knew where we were (roughly),...
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The Desert Experience
“The one thing I would recommend is to keep your tent zipped up”, the ranger at the Joshua Tree Visitor Center in Twentynine Palms told me in an overly polite voice. The tone reminded me of a calm...
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I turned thirty-four at the end of June and decided the best way to celebrate would be to go on a road trip. I was going at it alone, for seven days, covering over 2000 miles through California,...
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Sometimes you have to retreat
The ginger lady, with curly hair and slightly chubby appearance, operating the monza red Avis rental car shuttle bus, had some welcoming words and a weather forecast for us. “Thunderstorms are expected...
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