October 2009

More pictures from the White Mountains

October 25, 2009

We can put a man on the moon but…

October 24, 2009

I have discovered that one of the downsides of taking an extended time to go backpacking is that, when you come home everything can be compared to your trip. I went biking with a friend of mine and, as I was panting, I told her, “Man, I’m really out of shape.” She said, “You spent [...]

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Ray Jardine

October 23, 2009

As anyone who read my early posts knows, hiking through the Maine section of the Appalachian trail was hugely difficult for me. So, when I got to the Maine/New Hampshire border, I threw down my pack and took abut 100 hundred pictures. In short, I was ridiculously proud of myself. Not quite ready to leave, [...]

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Vermont on the trail

October 22, 2009

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Adjusting to being home

October 14, 2009

I am slowly adjusting to being back in Portland, but I have discovered some jarring differences between my trail life and city life. For starters, people here don’t wear the same thing everyday and tend to take showers more than twice a month. I’m still getting used to this. Recently, I was hugging a friend [...]

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Elaboration on being a solo female hiker

October 9, 2009

I’ve gotten a lot of responses to my blog post “On being a solo female hiker.” Almost all of them have been positive and I feel encouraged to know that I have a community of supportive men and women. However, there is one response that I would like to address, and I will tell you [...]

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Reader Question #11: Hipsters

October 3, 2009

Yvonne C from Oklahoma City, OK Question: I heard that you came back to Portland with a faux hawk and that you now wear a bandanna at all times. How is it, that after 3 months in the woods, you are now more of a hipster than a mountain woman? Answer: Excuse me. I will [...]

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