Before the laugh riot that will be forth coming, let me alert you that Andrew Blair is minus two wisdom teeth. He has a mouth full of gauzy blood and just took a pain pill, but I’m confident he’s going to be fine. And now, we’re both a little more confident that we won’t have [...]

Yesterday I bought around 250 nutrition bars off of Ebay. You know, those bar things that taste like chocolate covered cardboard and are supposed to be good for you (at least better than something with high fructose corn syrup). Most through hikers eat them. They eat alot of them. Like ten a day on epic [...]

You know me. I’m not political. I don’t normally discuss politics at all. But, I just had to post this.
Yanked from videogum

We all knew that George was/is an ass, but that “one fingered victory salute” was somehow shocking.

There are two responses that I usually get when I tell people we’re attempting to hike the PCT. One is “oh my god….why?” accompanied by a look off horror. The other is “oh my good…cool!” accompanied by a look of enthusiasm. I never quite know how to answer the “why” question. I’ve found that [...]

I’m just about done listing our lives on Ebay. I’m not sure if “done” means finished in the sense of “no more stuff” or “done” in the sense of “over it”. It’s hard to see the reality of the situation when you’re so close to the subject matter.
Whatever the case, tonight, I’m done in every [...]

kayaks, originally uploaded by cindigodotcom.

What do you do when you have a bunch of stuff to organize, a five month trip into the wilderness to plan and the more math oriented half of this duo has some very important computer programming to do? Why, go on a kayak trip of course.
New gear A+. We stayed [...]

We hiked most of the way to the summit of Bridge Mountain yesterday. We didn’t go all the way because the ice was making it too dangerous and it was getting dark. It was a momentous day because at the coldest it was 28 degrees and at the worst spots my legs post-holed (broke [...]