“Firearms training! No trespassing! Arizona Trail hikers okay.” This sign on the side of the trail does make me a little queasy. But what can you do? After all, we have to move forward.…
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“Gee, what’s that?” When I wake up in the morning, glittering ice crystals are beaming at me from inside my tent wall. And even the residual water in my charcoal-blackened pot is frozen. At…
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Entry bans, quarantine rules, flight cancellations – vacation planning for 2020 required increased creativity and flexibility. The TGO Challenge in Scotland in May and across the big pond to Amiland in the fall were…
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“Well, you’ll come back totally changed!” No matter who I told two years ago that I just wanted to hike through the entire state of Arizona for two months, the reaction was almost always…
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2:30 in the morning. The storm’s here. And with it, the dreaded thunderstorm. Again and again a violent thunder rolls over my tent, followed by lightning every few seconds. In itself, I like thunderstorms.…
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6:30 a.m. In semi-darkness I see a headlamp scurrying across the clearing. I am still lying cuddled up in my quilt, still unwilling to get up. I can’t and don’t want to keep up…