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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Sitting here in Dogtrot cabin at Tanglewood 4-H camp in my home town of Lincolnville, ME. I am here with six men who have been rendezvousing here for a weekend each winter, as we have done for the past 15 years or so. I came in alone last night. I rigged [...]
I am into a fresh appreciation for walking outside again. My friend Clarkie came up from Portsmouth, NH for Friday night and Saturday morning as part of a visit where we went to see the Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile at the Strand in Rockland. If you like music that is [...]
In the course of my lifetime I was fortunate to have closely known two men who were both devotees of the I Ching; Paul Yakovenko and Fritz Weidner. For the life of me, I was unable to accept that any degree of wisdom could come from the throwing of coins. [...]
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