Pinch of Dirt

Pinch of Dirt

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Here are some things I like.
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Confronting speedboats, lazy lagooners, and loneliness on the Columbia River
On an 800-mile canoe trip, Hannah Griffin learned that a crowded river heavily altered by humans can be the loneliest to traverse.
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1,000 hours outside
No resolutions, just observations
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Maybe it was luck, maybe it was climate change
Long Path Sections 20 + 21: Phoenicia to Mink Hollow
Slug mode, and a call for pitches
Come for the run-in with law enforcement and an electric fence, stay for everything else.
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Only the most hardy species can survive
New Jersey Appalachian Trail, Part One
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My head is very noisy of late
I'm going backpacking.
“I can’t write as well as those guys, but I can walk a lot farther.”
Review: Wandering Home by Bill McKibben
We don’t have a car. We came here on foot.
Long Path Sections 14 - 19: Witch's Hole to Phoenicia
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Is it normal to cry over rotten produce?
Plus: The ethics of hunting, and icing your drinks with glaciers.
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Bear!
New Jersey Appalachian Trail, Part Four
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It wasn’t an emergency. It was just inconvenient
New Jersey Appalachian Trail, Part Three
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