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It's 2026, And Blogging Isn't Dead (Yet) (opens the original)
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I spent a lot of time in college dreaming about adventures I thought I’d never have. Blowing off studying, I sat on Pinterest dreaming about backpacking the West Highland Way or the trek to Annapurna basecamp. I pretty quickly stumbled upon the concept of the travel blog and then spent hours reading those as well. I’d read and pin and before long looked at the writers behind these blogs and wondered, how do I do what they do? Ten years have passed since then, and I’m pretty happy to say I can an
Someday a man will tell you your summit photo makes your summiting less impressive (opens the original)
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It’s 2021, and I’ve freshly finished kayaking for 18 days in the Apostle Islands as part of a project with National Geographic. I open my phone for the first time in 18 days. I’ve just got a few thousand followers on Instagram. I like posting my adventure photos and making short videos, but there’s no real intention behind it yet. A man my age has messaged me. I have respect for real photographers or YouTubers, but your stuff doesn’t seem authentically outdoorsy. None of this is really impressiv
Backpacking AZ's Havasu Falls, Havasupai (opens the original)
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A few Marches ago I hopped in my car, drove three hours, then got on a plane to Vegas and began what was ultimately a several thousand mile journey to the most beautiful waterfalls in the United States.Up there with the Wave, the Enchantments, and the John Muir Trail, the trail to Havasu Falls in the Grand Canyon (known colloquially as “Havasupai”) is one of the most difficult hiking permits to land in the Untied States.When Aubree, a person I knew through the internet only, was looking for some
I Shit My Pants In The Upper Peninsula Woods (opens the original)
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There are two types of people in the world: those who have shit their pants, and those who have not shit their pants yet. Until early June of 2025 I was a proud member of the second group. To truly explain the significance of this event, allow me to take you back to 2019, where I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Armenia (hi, version no. 1 of my blog!). In Armenia I ate street meat, I backpacked the highlands and didn’t filter water, I returned my PC-issue water filter unused and never once did I s
See you in October🍁 (opens the original)
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Do you ever think about lost things? Last night I was knitting on the couch, string lights twinkling, candle burning, and a cup of tea when for the first time in years I remembered my owl mug. It used to be my favorite through college, a silly owl-shaped mug with big yellow eyes. I had it through all four years of college. I think I remember having it when I lived in Armenia. I think I remember having it in my first apartment in Grand Marais too, but there it slips from memory.I had a new favori
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