We got whacked again on Friday with another snow storm that canceled all local schools and meetings for the eighth time this winter. The good news is that the bare ground is now warmed up to the point that the snow that lands there is usually gone in a few days.
Today I finally [...]
Today was my birthday, March 27, and also the first anniversary of my first day of the start of my five and a half month Appalachian Trail thru-hike last year.
This year, my wife and her twin sister are about three weeks in to the launch of their own AT thru-hike, a valiant effort for [...]
It is getting close to 3/27 , the first anniversary of starting my Appalachian Trail thru-hike .
A couple of days ago, I was back on the Uncle Tom trail, a local path through the forest right here in Maine . I took my snow shoes with me, [...]
Been a busy week for me, with trying to run the house alone, update my wife’s valiant progress on her Appalachian Trail thru-hike attempt on Trailjournals, shovel some more snow, and try and work a bit to make some money to pay these bills.
Still pretty worked up [...]
This morning, my hands were not so cold as I tugged on the bungee cords for the final time and anchored down the diminished load on my toboggan. We lingered over breakfast, all of us knowing that we would make short work of the day’s walk on the superhighway we had laid down yesterday. [...]
We had a sort of layover day today, as we made enough progress on our intended route these past few days that we were able to stay at this camp site for another night. This is just the best, not having to move another day, no packing of sleds, just waking, eating, [...]
When we woke up this morning and it was 15 below zero. That would be in the tent. It took a long time for the tent to warm up. Today our task was just to walk 5 miles , on frozen Canada Falls Lake. Here’s a pdf from Google Maps of the trip area:
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Feb. 20, 2008 .
I was never so cold as this morning, when I was laying out my gear on my toboggan, with the wind blowing, ice underfoot, and huge logging trucks flying by us as we were readying for the put-in at Penobscot Brook.
I tore open the two chemical hand warmers and shoved them [...]
Things are pretty different here this past week or so. My Powerbook G4 is dead as a doornail. I am waiting for a new lap top to arrive, there is another ice storm here that cancelled everything today, and my wife Auntie Mame has been sick and hunkered down [...]
Polish power is alive and well in the Himalayas. Read all about it, featured in “Himalaya Ice Warriors”, within the Jan. 2008 issue of National Geocraphic magazine. Polish mountain climbers have a huge history as innovators in winter season climbing techniques. The article clarifies why my wife believes that everything I do for leisure [...]
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