Monthly Archives: January 2012

“others travel the tangible world with no thought for their bodies, barely aware of its vigors: Fear walks the world of the words which pertain to our bodies – there is fear” – Pablo Neruda, Ritual of my Legs Once … Continue reading →

The temperature drops quickly in northern Minnesota once the sun sets. Overnight it was to dip into the minus twenties again but it was probably only minus 10 or so at this point. I stopped to get my headlamp out of … Continue reading →

“Adventure, we found, was… the head-on collision between what we wanted and what we got” – John Long I’m headed out to Minnesota tomorrow night so I thought now would be a good time to pause and reflect on my … Continue reading →

“It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree.” – John Muir I spent most of the … Continue reading →

A little over 2 weeks from now and I’ll be heading off to Northern Minnesota for a little fun in the sun at the Arrowhead 135!  Here’s a tale of woe and misery that I wrote after my first experience doing … Continue reading →

Laugh if you will, but oftentimes as I sleep on the ground during my solo trips I am visited in my dreams by animals.  No, I haven’t quite lost my mind yet but it happens enough to see a trend.  I can only … Continue reading →

I nursed a cold through the latter half of last week so my dream of “giddying up” and linking the Anza-Borrego Traverse will remain just a line on the map for the time being.  Despite being a little under the … Continue reading →