Over the next hill, around the next bend

February 4, 2008

I coast across the trail intersection to look at the map mounted on posts on the other side. When I stop, I hear nothing except the pounding of my heart. The distant whine of snowmobiles that had periodically reached my ears while skiing the last kilometer from the trailhead are absent now. So is the […]

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Molasses

March 6, 2006

We just took a four day vacation to Minnesota’s North Shore, staring at the awesome expanses of Lake Superior, skiing, snowshoeing, reading, sleeping, eating and doing nothing at all. Aside from playing outdoors and relaxing indoors, we also visited some old friends of my parents who have found a wonderful place for their retirement in […]

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A Story to Tell

December 22, 2005

“Ponder now these past days as I solo hike upon the shared ground of two great ecosystems of how in-tune with self and nature one can become if they let go of worry and face hardship and discomfort head on.”
My friend Sam hiked the entire Superior Hiking Trail in May and has put his journal […]

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“The sunshine coming overhead, the sky lit up like a cigarette.”

October 27, 2005

We were having a hard time deciding how to spend our anniversary. We had some ideas, some small desires, but nothing stood out in the week leading up to it. We wanted to be outside, or close to it, to forget the stresses of our jobs and life, to make a memory, to be together. […]

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