i think i've mentioned this in my blog a few times now: that i am not a huge fan of day hikes. in the realm of outdoor jaunts, they occupy the lower rungs of priorities, bunched up with rock climbing and surfing, below trail running, beach camping, and landscape photography. the reason is simply that i would like to spend more time on the mountain ( Read more... )

last week, as i had expected, i became the very sore recipient of snide remarks about my having gotten "lost" in mt. talamitam. what made me sore is that the stories that circulated very hastily concluded that i, along with my companions, bivouacked. while lexically true (since by definition, to bivouac means to camp), what "bivouac" suggests, at ( Read more... )