On my last backpacking trip just before I left for Nepal last October, ironically in the Smokies, I had a critical equipment malfunction… the dreaded fatal-boot-blow-out. Thankfully, it was toward the end of the trip, [...]
Hey friends, I have big news!! I have officially accepted an Appalachian Trail Ridgerunner position in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park for the 2024 season! What is a Ridgerunner, you ask? A Ridgerunner works [...]
The reality didn’t hit me fully until I was brushing my teeth after arriving home in an emergency 4-flight, 38-hour travel marathon. As I washed my face, rinsed my mouth out, and took a sip [...]
On the trail today, I stumbled across a religious pamphlet tacked to a tree that said, “Don't be left behind.” I had a good laugh because you can never be left behind. Did you know [...]
I held the intention to walk the length of the Foothills Trail, present, and intuitively… choosing a place to camp each night based on how I felt and where I wanted to travel… feeling fully [...]
New Year’s Eve, 2022… I have always been a sucker for New Year’s Resolutions. In years past, I would set my sights on a brand-spanking new… ideal me… eager to give up this and [...]
This kind of stuff just doesn't happen to me! I always have snafu-free adventures. I meet interesting people and have nothing but magically synchronistic encounters and experiences when I travel. I have met some of [...]
WildWoodWear Part II: I had dreamed of owning a sewing machine for as long as I could remember. My mother was chomping at the bit to buy me one for a birthday or Christmas [...]
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The Art of Slowing Down People ask me all the time, “What is WildWood Magic?” And although I have at least a thousand things to say about it, the phrase “The Art of Slowing [...]
Lately, I have been examining my {nearly default} state of feeling like I’m in a hurry. This feels like a learned pattern/habit from times when it felt appropriate ...or even desirable to always be in [...]
Next month, I will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of my thru-hike on the Appalachian Trail. Time is such a funny thing… and it astounds me that it has been ten years! The time [...]
