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It’s day two of my backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon. I’ve set up camp at Havasupai Garden, and the rain, hail, and wind that drove me into my tent for an early afternoon nap has passed overhead. I’m heading out for a hike along the Tonto Platform to overlook the inner canyon from Plateau Point, 1.5 miles from the campground.
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Picking up my backpacking trip to the Grand Canyon: I hiked down the South Kaibab trail in one day and camped by the river at Bright Angel Campground. Now I have to hike back up the 4340 feet and 9.5 miles to the rim on Bright Angel trail.
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This was my third attempt to see the Grand Canyon, and I’m delighted to report that I was successful, and it absolutely lived up to its name!
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Or, in which we took our boats for a long walk across the desert
Or, the fine art of bailing
Or, how to avoid getting rescued
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I took this week as vacation, and even though I didn’t travel far I got off the grid for a few days of backpacking along the Appalachian Trail. My plan was to go solo, but as it turned out I had plenty of company: a multitude of mosquitos and black flies joined me for every step. Nonetheless it was a great trip— the terrain is beautiful, it was quiet, the weather was good enough, and I feel so accomplished for having done it!
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For the past several years it’s been my habit and my pleasure to take advantage of the long holiday shutdown to travel. This year the Covid-19 pandemic is still raging, and travel is unwise.
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The history of the White Mountain National Forest is intimately linked with the logging industry that dominated the region from the mid nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It’s easy to spot the legacy of the logging companies in railroad grades and road cuts that cross the forest, and in the artifacts left behind in the woods. Knowing that most of the forest I see is second or third growth, I always wonder what the mature, old growth forest would look like. This weekend’s mission was to find out.
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The federal holiday for US Independence Day was this Friday, and since long weekends in the summer are a precious commodity, we took to the trails for a few days of backpacking in Pemigewasset Wilderness.
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February is the ideal time to hit the highlights of the previous year. Why? Everybody else publishes their top 10 lists and year in review listicles in December, and it’s so hard to compete with that kind of crowd. Also, I didn’t start blogging until February.
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