Person of the Week: Brass Knuckles Guy BONUS PERSON OF THE WEEK: My Greyhound Bus Buddy The sunrise was beautiful on our last morning in the wilderness. We climbed out of the tent at the first light, eager to move around and try to warm up as we anticipated Ron’s arrival; he was supposed to... Continue Reading →

Person of the Week: The Gnarled Oak Tree Forever a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, Chandler and I somehow managed to get ahead of schedule to the point that we were left with astoundingly short hikes for our last two days—8 and 6 miles, respectively, if I remember correctly. We were to... Continue Reading →

This post is particularly unique, as, rather than recount a specific experience, I’ll be introducing a few more people we met on the trail, whom we encountered in circumstances not exceptionally conducive to writing an entire post about the events themselves. Nonetheless, these individuals are prominent characters who come up regularly when Chandler and I... Continue Reading →

Person of the Week: The camp counselors who were NOT dating With food rations replenished, we pressed on, confident and prepared to seize the second half of the hike. Much of the time passed relatively uneventfully, and we found ourselves doing exactly what we had set out to do from the beginning: slowly meandering through... Continue Reading →

Person of the week: The European Lady BONUS PERSON OF THE WEEK: GMC Guy As previously mentioned, following day one (and Bill saving our hike), we were only carrying half of our food with us. For some reason the levels of our metaphorical grain silos maintained a consistent decline from day to day, and we... Continue Reading →

Person of the week: "Helen is lit." guy You would probably think that one rock-related incident was more than enough for ten days on the trail, but you’d be wrong. Perhaps it would be in a typical backpacking trip, and something about me and Chandler simply bent everything in the universe—sentient or otherwise—towards our destruction... Continue Reading →

Person of the Week: Shirtless We now diverge from our previous paradigm for recounting the misfortunes of me and Chandler to a new one; following our second day, much of our experience flows together in my mind in such a way that I can more easily recall specific events rather than entire days. So, rather... Continue Reading →

-In support of adding 'stepth' to the dictionary- Person of the week: John G After such a long day, sleeping on the ground was a bit of a disappointment. Granted, we had sleeping pads; I had bought mine at Costco for $30: a heavy, self-inflating beauty that was probably better suited to car camping. Though... Continue Reading →

Person of the week: Ron Brown BONUS PERSON OF THE WEEK: Bill They say that the journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step. Chandler and I now know that that saying implies an inverse correlation between mileage and barriers of entry. For example, in our case, the journey of one hundred miles... Continue Reading →

Person of the week: the foreboding shuttle driver (The Person of the week section will usually announce some person of significance—almost always someone that showed us great unsolicited kindness—who gets introduced in the post. After all, the many friendly people we encountered were the main reasons our trip was successful and enjoyable; for all my self-deprecating... Continue Reading →