#backbonetrail

The things we seek…

I’m sitting at a picnic bench, boiling quinoa, because that’s the hipster thing to do. Also, I’m a millennial, so I might as well act the part. A patch nosed snake slithers by and, despite the lack of venom, I get a funny feeling running up the back of my spine. It doesn’t help that I’ve walked over multiple tarantula burrows since the start of this trip. At the first one, I thought it was a…

The past few days, I hiked the Backbone Trail.  Not all 67 miles, but 37, which is enough if you ask me.  And the whole point of this blog is to catalog my travels and sometimes, those travels aren’t so grand. In fact, they can be pretty pathetic. Because here’s the deal: I cried. I cried a lot.  I cried because, sometimes I was scared (okay, like all the time).  Like in my tent at night, when…

The top of Saddle Peak.  This is an optional portion of The Backbone Trail (wish I had known that before)—you can cut around it and take Stunt Road if you don’t want to deal with the elevation.  It was one hell of an uphill climb.  But at the top, there are these wild rock formations.  Insanely beautiful, rising up proudly from the mountain.  Once you cross through them, there is a divide in the…

The top of Saddle Peak.  This is an optional portion of The Backbone Trail (wish I had known that before)—you can cut around it and take Stunt Road if you don’t want to deal with the elevation.  It was one hell of an uphill climb.  But at the top, there are these wild rock formations.  Insanely beautiful, rising up proudly from the mountain.  Once you cross through them, there is a divide in the…

Fear tastes different in the wild.

The past few days, I hiked the Backbone Trail.  Not all 67 miles, but 37, which is enough if you ask me.  And the whole point of this blog is to catalog my travels and sometimes, those travels aren’t so grand. In fact, they can be pretty pathetic. Because here’s the deal: I cried. I cried a lot.  I cried because, sometimes I was scared (okay, like all the time).  Like in my tent at night, when…