HeyJaredStrawbridge Treks
Companion material of multiple types to the publication Pretty Good at Walking, and all things related to its creation.
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Inventing the Girl, Verifying Everything Else (opens the original)
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Overland to Montana (opens the original)
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The Longest GraveyardPart A — The Diary- she is a composite based on real people.Camp near St. Joseph, on the Missouri — May, 1863I waked twice in the night, though I had prayed myself to sleep. The first time, I peeked out below the canvas, the fire was not yet down, and the men sat about it with their faces made red and black by turns. They spoke low, which is the same as inviting me to listen.<div clas
The Thru-Hiker’s Body (opens the original)
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The body that reaches the Mexican border is not the body that left Canada. Over a long trail, it adapts system by system, and the timing of that adaptation explains much of what a thru-hiker feels: why the first weeks are often the hardest, why “trail legs” arrive before the body is fully ready, and why the worst part eventually ends.The useful way to understand the walking body is to see that it runs on two clocks. They both respond to load, but they do not keep the same time.<
Auditing Fables (opens the original)
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Anthropic released a new model a few weeks back that was recalled for a time. Rumor has it, it was too powerful. Who knows.They’ve recently re-released a version of it. When this happens with an updated model, I like to run it at my full repos in audit mode. After completing the audits for my company’s repos, I turned it at this one. Maker’s Log · repo … Read more
Shelter to Go (opens the original)
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Thirty Minutes or LessA hiker on the Continental Divide tonight will carry her house to camp on her back. In the 2024 thru-hiker survey conducted by Halfway Anywhere, the single most carried shelter was a two-person tent of Dyneema composite weighing about eighteen ounces. It has no poles of its own; it is pitched on the two trekking poles the hiker walks with, and it stands in minutes.The question it answers is one of the oldest housing questions this country asks: how do you carry a house thro
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