A few weekends ago I had the opportunity to spend the weekend up in Canada with Josy from A Walk And A Lark and Lisa from West Coast Hiker Girl in Manning Park, BC, east of Vancouver. Lisa is a born and raised Canadian and knows the territory well, so she took over as our…
Category: Hikes and Stories
How To Hike with Others (And Love It)
This post was originally shared on November 21, 2016. A post of this kind has been brewing in my head for a while now and after reading something infuriating this last week, I decided to put it to words. If you came here just to learn how to hike with others, you may need…
I Am Yearning: A Pantoum
This post was originally shared on June 27, 2016. I had a nice hike with a new friend a few weeks ago on a new-to-me trail. Almost 7 hours of conversation getting to know an amazing young woman, what was important to her and where she thinks she might be headed in life (at least the first few steps,…
How Much Risk Is Acceptable?
This post was originally shared in December of 2016. I love learning new stuff. I love relearning old stuff. It wasn’t a planned thing but last week I was asked by my friend Denise if I wanted to go to the Mountaineers Leadership Conference with her. She is a hike leader and involved in her…
Stehekin, Washington: THE Best Gateway Town to Public Lands
This week’s Nature Writing Challenge comes to you with just 20 minutes left to write so you are going to get some pretty amazing pictures instead! The topic is “Where is your favorite gateway town outside America’s public lands and what makes it so great?” Any memorable experiences? Well, if you just finished reading my…
Snuffy’s Final 2013 Pacific Crest Trail Journal August 24
#ThrowbackThursday This is part of a series of journal entries I have made while section hiking the Pacific Crest Trail since 2013 over on Trailjournals.com. I am moving them here to Must Hike Must Eat and updating them with photos (and maybe fixing typos). You can, also, head over to Trailjournals.com and read as many…