This post first appeared on The Trek, which you can read here. July 16th I found myself on the floor of the Safeway in Leadville, Colorado, with my back pressed against a grotesquely large selection of various shampoos and sunscreens. I wasn’t thinking about how ridiculous or concerned I might appear to bystanders or Safeway […]
This post first appeared on The Trek, which you can read here. July 12th There is a state—a bodily, mental, and spiritual plane of existence—wherein absolution is achieved in endurance. Awareness tightens in a gyre of relentless focus. Begets a black hole, a pinprick through which all concerns must pass, reshaping themselves into essential forms: […]
This post first appeared on The Trek, which you can read here. This series is a retrospective on my 2020 Colorado Trail thru-hike. July 7th On the edge of the Green River, I slept more deeply than I had in ages, curled into dreams that bled into other dreams. Megan and I stowed our respective […]
Hitting the Trail This post first appeared on The Trek, which you can read here. This series is a retrospective on my 2020 Colorado Trail thru-hike. July 5th – Denver, CO to Trail I felt the thrill of heading to trail and beginning my thru-hike gathering in my limbs as we sped down the interstate […]
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