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December 17, 2016December 16, 2016

Europe N to S: Trail Family (12/15/16)

November 29, 2016November 29, 2016

Europe N to S: Farther Than That (11/26/16)

September 16, 2016September 16, 2016

Europe N to S: Sometimes you have to Dance (9/1/16-9/4/16)

August 1, 2015January 23, 2016

Grand Enchantment: Goodbye Divide (3/23)

July 31, 2015January 23, 2016

Grand Enchantment: Back to the Divide (3/22)

June 30, 2012October 23, 2012

Angle to Key West: Border Patrol (6/18)

June 5, 2012May 26, 2016

Five Minutes on the Continental Divide

May 23, 2012July 15, 2012

Continental Divide: Mile 2970

May 23, 2012May 27, 2012

Continental Divide: Mile 2580

May 23, 2012May 27, 2012

Continental Divide: Mile 2280

May 23, 2012May 27, 2012

Continental Divide: Mile 1931

May 23, 2012May 27, 2012

Continental Divide: Mile 1765

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Picture 10/50 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Scenic Trails Act: Part of the Wild: Sometimes we forget that we don't come with claws or legs fast enough to keep us safe, we don't have sharp teeth or armored skin. We don't remember that our only edge was between our ears, that banding together was the only thing that kept us safe. But the trail reminds you and when it does you feel all those old senses emerge, feeble and weak, trying to scrape off civilization's dust, because you're alone in the wild where bigger things than you roam free. #trails50 #cdt #continentaldividetrail #hiking #backpacking #evolution #wilderness

Picture 9/50 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Scenic Trails Act: Kitchen View: You carry your house on your back when you walk the long trails. It's all there, the kitchen, the living room, the bedroom, wrapped up in stuff sacks and shoved in a backpack. Sometimes your bedroom has roots running across it that make your back sore in the morning, sometimes the lounge has a nice rock to sit on as you eat dinner, sometimes you have running water, sometimes you only have what's left in your bottle, and sometimes the kitchen has a view like this one from the high Sierras along the Pacific Crest Trail where the entire world stretched out below you and you feel like the last and luckiest person left on Earth. #pct #trails50 #sierranevada #hikertrash #nationalscenictrail

Picture 8/50 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Scenic Trails Act: Storms Come: You can't avoid storms on the long trails. You can get lucky sometimes, watch them past in the distance, but one day they will find you. You are out too many days with too far to go to miss them forever. In the end, you must take them as they come, respect their power, enjoy the reminder that you are small. This is from a snowstorm in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado. I found an old mining shack just off the divide, mostly broken down, just a few boards still clinging to the roof and wall, but enough to break the wind a bit and warm my hands in my jacket. Every storm passes eventually and the sun is sweeter for it. Good luck to my friends and family in Tallahassee. Love you all and thinking of you tonight. #trails50 #continentaldividetrail #cdt #hikertrash

Picture 7/50 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Scenic Trails Act: Places You Never Heard Of: The big National Parks are easy, who hasn't heard of Yosemite or Yellowstone? But some of my favorite memories come from wild places I'd never heard of before stepping on a National Scenic Trail. This is from the Wind River Range, a beautiful spine of granite mountains hidden, almost forgotten, in the shadow of Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, but just as spectacular, perhaps even more so.

Picture 6/50 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Scenic Trails Act: Moving Across the Land: Along the northern half of the Pacific Crest Trail you travel along a line of volcanoes stretching north: Lassen, Shasta, Crater Lake, Three Sisters, Jefferson, Hood, Adams, and Rainier. From each you can look back to see where you came from and look forward to see where you are going. You measure progress by transforming the smallest hint of a mountain on the horizon into a giant standing over you days later. Then you watch it fade away. That feeling of forward movement is addictive. Life isn't so easy to gauge. This picture is from the top of Old Snowy, sunset or sunrise, looking off at Rainier in the distance. #trails50 #pacificcresttrail #thruhiking #hikertrash

Picture 5/50 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Scenic Trails Act: Adapt: National Scenic Trails cross a variety of terrain. The first seven hundred miles of the Pacific Crest Trail run through deserts. Water sources are at a premium. Sometimes twenty or miles separate them. Many hikers rest in the middle of the day, finding shade, preserving their strength for easier hours when the sun isn't starting down at you. I think I used to walk five miles per liter of water in the heat of the day. In a cool morning , I could stretch it to ten. This photo is from where the trail passes through a tunnel under a highway, cool even on the hottest day, a place to rest, recover and wait for a better time to move forward.

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