The Backbone Trail
The Palisades Fire in California last year sure has messed things up. Not only was it devastating to the communities in Santa Monica and nearby towns, it burned large swaths of the adjacent Santa...
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Mark’s Photos #2
It was 2019, and I was on my second long section hike of the Continental Divide Trail, having hiked from Mexico to central Colorado the year before. I was now north of Rawlings, WY....
The Grand Sawtooth Loop Trail
How hard can this be, I thought to myself. I’ll just type “Sawtooth Mountains” into my favorite search engine and pick the best result to jumpstart my research on this trail. But hold on,...
Mark’s Photos #1
My friend Dan was the impetus for Sunday’s blog about Thru-hiker Slang. It was fun to write and I appreciate his unintentional writing prompt. Dan has his own blog, over60hiker.wordpress.com, which is about his...
Thru-Hiker Slang
Inspired by Dan’s comment last week, I’ve decided to do a post on the terms thru-hikers use on the trail when chatting with other thru-hikers. This is not an exhaustive list, but I think...
Founder’s Favorite
Today I delve a little more deeply into the Santa Fe to Taos Trail. Since Pam Neely, the trail founder, has neatly laid out various itineraries in her guidebook, I have chosen her 12...
2 responses to “Founder’s Favorite”
It is so obvious you are having so much fun planning this trip. Thanks for taking us along! Pam Neely, the trail founder, is truly a Trail Angel giving you LDH different trails to choose from. Is LDH an acronym you use for long distance hiker? Your planning makes me thinking of my joy in drafting my blogs to get them right. This trail is no child’s play, my friend. But you, of anyone I know, are up for the training and the challenge. Rock on!
You definitely have the planning-fun part right. And, yes, it is similar to crafting anything that you care about. Finding joy in planning a blog post or a thru-hike makes such endeavors that much more worthwhile.
Also, you’re right, Pam is an extraordinary Trail Angel. When I signed up with the SF2T Thru-hike organization, she emailed me inviting questions, and if I was on the trail, to contact her if I needed help, or urgent supplies, etc., and she would try and get them to me or pick me up if I could get to a road. Definitely an offer that is Above And Beyond!
As to LDH, I haven’t heard that acronym used. The term with more cachet is “thru-hiker.” Although I often use long-distance hiker when I am not hiking a trail end to end. Sometime I should probably do a blog on thru-hiker slang.