I got up early from the Wise shelter and was ready to face the world. I was on the ice covered trail just as it was light and skated...

Per the usual, it froze overnight and the morning was uninviting. Luckily I had enough snacks and motivation to finally get up around 7....

Three weeks in and I am blessed with some more interesting weather. Before I get in to my day of waking let me explain the weather with a...

Occasionally I will get up earlier than is probably healthy in order to plan my day around a town or post office. Today was one of those...

When you are doing lots of miles every day, efficiency is the name of the game. You want to be taking full advantage of the daylight...

I woke up barely avoiding the many puddles the leaking roof of the shelter caused and I finally got to introduce myself to the others...

Last night my headlamp got progressively dimmer as I neared the No Business Knob shelter. This is alarming as it is one of my most useful...

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I had every intention of getting up early and getting 30 miles in before dark. That all changed when some weekend hikers showed up at the...

As it always is nearly everywhere in the US, it was a cold morning. I moved quickly and had everything packed and was moving. Just like...

Once again I could not realize the full potential of a bed in the Laughing Heart Hostel. So after laying there all morning I finally made...

It wasn’t necessarily a good night sleep in the Standing Bear Hostel. But I was protected by Sylvester the cat who was protecting me from...

Let me start with saying my wishful thinking that it would not freeze last night was misguided and caused me multiple problems in not...

The good news is that the temperature finally warmed up. It might not even get to freezing tonight. The bad news is the strongest wind...

Things I didn’t see today: the sun, people, wildlife, the trail. What I did see was snow and a very thick cloud that hung overhead all...

Imagine it snows over a foot in the last few days and the conditions would be perfect for skiing. You drive up to the mountain but...

It’s never a good sign when you pick up your wet socks from the previous day and they are rock hard. So frozen you could use them as a...

I will keep this one relatively short as I am very exhausted. I trudged through anywhere from 6-10 inches of snow all morning, and it...

I woke up with a thin sheet of ice covering my sleeping bag. I would later learn the overnight temperature was around 0. I put on...

I woke up with my new four fellow hiking friends covered in snow. Our shelter with a makeshift tarp had failed on the edges and since I...