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Hold for Pickup
I posted my first trail package this morning. Using the “hold for pickup” service, you can post a package to a U.S. post office which will keep it for you until you get there. In this way, you can stage boxes of consumables to be picked up during your hike. It’s a bit of a…
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The best laid plans…
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz is often misquoted as saying, “No operational plan extends with high certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy force.” In fact, it was not von Clausewitz, but rather Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke who said that, even though it’s a fair restatement of the battle philosophy of…
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Packing
As I finalize the items that I’m taking, as always, I’ve packed too much. I’ll pack my gear several times before Friday and begin to cut items that would be nice to have but I really don’t need. Once on the trail, as I make that first ascent, I’ll vow to cut another group of…
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The Cost of Living in The World
As the time draws near for me to step-off, the reality of being gone for a month is beginning to sink in. Routine things like paying bills, adding chlorine to the septic tanks, bathing the dog, and checking the mail have to be addressed. Of course it helps to have a family that will take…
Very nice!