Allegheny Front TrailBlack Moshannon State ParkPennsylvaniaSeptember 2003 In Naked I, I wrote, “According to the register at trailhead, no one has been here in the last seventeen days. There may be, at this moment, no one within miles of me.” If you assumed I was talking about people, you are thinking the same thing I’m… Continue reading Naked II
Author: asiwentwalking
Naked I
Allegheny Front TrailBlack Moshannon State ParkPennsylvaniaSeptember 2003 On the first day of my four-day solo trip, I stop ten miles into the wilderness to make camp. The rain has stopped and I find an attractive area for camp, right by a stream in the draw between the leading edge of the front and some other… Continue reading Naked I
Quite a Large Hole in the Ground
outside FlagstaffArizonaMay 2018 Lisa is not the only one who has been caught speeding in Arizona. In 1871, two years after John Wesley Powell explored the Grand Canyon, scout for the United States government Franklin Benitez was charged with surveying a remote region in the Arizona Territory. Coming upon a sizable depression in the ground,… Continue reading Quite a Large Hole in the Ground
Speeding in Arizona
outside WinslowArizonaMay 2018 As you may realize by now, the police keep a constant watch on Lisa when she is driving. I have been her passenger too numerous times to count when an officer has pulled her over. She moves fast, but they’re on to her. This time we’re on Arizona Highway 87 traveling north,… Continue reading Speeding in Arizona
The Hills are Alive
Mount RogersVirginiaJuly 2011 We start up the Susan Spillane Trail off the A T to the summit of Mount Rogers. Our trail is thick with balsam fir trees, so many that the place was once named Balsam Mountain. At that time, a geologist/physicist/professor at the University of Virginia was awarded the title of the state’s… Continue reading The Hills are Alive
New England Seasons
VermontAugust 2013 Our weather today is pleasant, comfortable, delightful even. We have wispy clouds, reasonably warm temperatures. It’s August, it’s summer, one of New England’s seasons. Summer is followed by autumn, of course, and then by stick season. When Earth is on the other side of the sun, spring for most, New England experiences mud… Continue reading New England Seasons
Route Finding
Quebec Run Wild AreaPennsylvaniaApril 2016
One Night a Cabin
Red RockPennsylvaniaOctober 2000 One night, we stay in a two-room cabin in Red Rock, Pennsylvania, just south of the natural wetlands, old growth forest and great variety of waterfalls at Ricketts Glen State Park. We stay in this cabin because last night, when we camped out, my toothpaste froze solid. We walk into the office… Continue reading One Night a Cabin
Thixotropy
Shake and shakeThe catsup bottle.None will come,And then a lot’ll. — Richard Armour (1906 – 1989)
Sunflower
GoodlandKansasMarch 2013 Eighteen miles past Kanorado, at Goodland, Kansas, stand the largest sunflowers one is ever likely to see. We are in the car, without directions, but if this flora is as big as I’ve heard it is, we’ll have no trouble finding it. Yep, here we are, next to Bubba’s Meat Block and Bill’s… Continue reading Sunflower