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Preparation
Adequate Preparation is Key to Any Successful Backpacking Trip I must admit that I love planning a backpacking trip almost as much as the trip itself. It is during this stage that I allow myself to mentally walk through the entire journey from beginning to end, campsite to campsite (and… -
You Are Never Too Old
Sheep Grazing Near an Icelandic Waterfall An Important Question If I asked you to complete the following sentence, ‘You are never too old to [BLANK]’ what would your answer be? Over the past few months I have been asking myself this question, and the list of answers I have come…
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Hiking While Old
Let me make one thing clear from the start: despite the title of this piece, I do not consider myself old. An old man is someone twenty years my senior or more, and this has been true for as long as I can remember. When I was twenty, forty was… -
Why I Go
The question was a fairly simple one, and yet I struggled to give my wife an answer It was early morning on a Monday, just past 8 am. I was in the middle of packing for an April snowshoe trip to Crater Lake and my wife wanted to know why…