Posts tagged "camping"

• Touching Grass

  Published on March 13, 2023

  I was always a big city person. I liked nature, but not excessively. Now that I'm almost 5 years into being a Californian, that's starting to change. I don't just like the outdoors, I love it. I survived (and thrived) at a five day backcountry Yosemite backpacking trip with no toilets or showers. I scaled Half Dome. I…

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• All of my wildest dreams

  Published on August 10, 2021

  Scrambling down Alamere Falls (which is now dry) on the rock face I spent the past weekend hiking. Some of it was on a dried out waterfall, such as this one. For a long time now I have wanted to lead a wilder life than the one I had. Earlier in my youth, wild meant something else altogether. Today, it means:…

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• Wilderness TV

  Published on April 8, 2012

  I can't say I've been away from my phone or Mac for more than 24 hours, not at any point in the last 10 years. I can't say I have at all. They feel like such natural extensions of my arm, they are almost artificial appendages themselves, not just of my body but also of my brain. I needed to switch off and I needed a…

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