Day 7 – Kilometer 162.3 – 184.5 The day I got heat stroke, I was moving at a 2km per hour pace for 18km; that trail was rated as “difficult to strenuous” by the ECT Association. Today the Spout Trail is rated “strenuous,” and instead of having a town at the end, it continues on…
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The Anticlimax Day 40 arrived. It was the final stretch to reach the Cape Scott lighthouse, the northern endpoint of the VIT. I thought I would have been excited and eager to get going, to breeze through the final kilometers and find myself triumphantly skipping up the hill to the sight of the much anticipated…
Day 64. Miles: 19.9 Total: 1006.8 At sunrise, I’m hiking along Wilma Lake when I encounter a deer on the trail. The doe looks at me but doesn’t move out of the way, not even when I wave a trekking pole at her. These Sierra deer have no fear of humans at all. “Have a…
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The west becomes a movable feast in the summer, when the mountains aren’t just alive with wildflowers and fauna, but when the nature also becomes EDIBLE. The PCT corridor’s beloved berry season is in full swing by July and runs well into September. So clean the old ramen out of your smelly Talenti jars and…
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Multiple world debuts at Cannes for Sanlorenzo, Prestige and Beneteau Sail by Susannah Hart 10 Aug 08:00 PDT 6-11 September 2022 Oceanis Yacht 60 © Beneteau Leading motor and sail brands Sanlorenzo, Prestige Motor Yachts and Beneteau Sail are making multiple world debuts at the Cannes Yachting Festival, 6-11 September 2022. Sanlorenzo SP110…
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Let’s go!!! I know, I know… I haven’t “finished” The Pyrenees High Route yet. But I did complete the trail, almost a month ago now, I just haven’t wrapped up writing about it. I’ll get to it eventually maybe as a ‘Throwback Thursday’ post and/or when I have a good amount of time in a…
Challengers at the RYA Multiclass Regatta at Rutland Sailing Club by Marion Edwards 10 Aug 00:52 PDT 6-7 August 2022 Pursuit race start sees close work by the Challenger fleet at the RYA Multiclass Regatta – Rutland in 2022 © Tony Mayhew Thirteen Challengers were ready to take part in the RYA Sailability Multiclass…
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Continuing southbound in Virginia, I’d tackle rugged and picturesque terrain in the Blue Ridge Mountains. But I never could have imagined the coyote conundrum I’d face on Day 103. Here are the daily details: Day 100 – Rockfish Gap to Reid’s Gap (19 miles) hitch to Devils Backbone brewery Day 101 – Reid’s Gap to…
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Don’t expect it to heal you. Those were the words that a colleague said to me back in Aotearoa. He had walked the trail in 2019. It’s funny, a lot of people know of nobody who has completed a long distance thru hike, but in the circles I run in of seasonal workers, travelers, hikers…
