can't wait to get back to my
chinatown campspot. las animas!!
seven months...
met up with kage at the b-side in somerville last night.
excellent time. a little weary of her psych degree
"why do you think that is?" questions...
"the longest train i ever saw went down that georgia line. the engine passed at six o'clock and the cab passed by at nine."
and it feels good. fresh start.
xmas xmas xmas
yummy walks, seeing all the lights.
2nite will be fun. anticipation is killing me...
oh, beautiful new england.
i was actually pleasantly surprised at how nice it was.
arrived too late to make it all the way up the 1st day. stayed just off the trail, hadn't seen stars that bright since being out west. blinking and winking through the trees at me. dark at 4:30...
talked to a couple old friends recently. since i've been here, i've had nothing to offer - like i'm just on hold.
i feel bad about talking to people from my past because i don't know what to say. all i can do is ask questions. there's really nothing to tell.... there is nobody in my life that i'm close to, i have no overwhelming or exciting experiences. i know, snap out of it....
nice line from built to spill's latest: "when things are all you think of, and plans are all you make, and thoughts are all you dream of, and falls are all you take - look out the world's destroying you. relax it isn't fair. mother nature's disposition, she don't mind, she don't care."
msr miniworks water filter
marmot 'never winter' 30 degree down bag
or snowline mitts
sierra designs portable attic for sirius tent
msr 4l dromlite bag
the water filter is super-easy to use & maintain. no tools required. i was relieved to get to the end of the instruction manual in only 6 tiny pages! it works really fast too. screwed it onto a nalgene, had it full in less than a minute. tested the new bag 2 nights ago when the low was 31. maybe if i hadn't been on a second-story porch it would have been nicer but my face was really cold all night. the rest of me was warm inside the bag but i came back inside at 2am. i'd say the bag was perfect. weighs under 2 lbs, compresses to probably half the size of my winter bag and is gonna be a good friend in the desert....
this weekend i'm going up to the whites. the ringer. probably solo unless j wants to go too. won't be taking the new bag! hopefully i'll get snowed on. yesiree.
"Too bad they don’t know that the struggle of the twenty-first century started here, a tiny creek in Death Valley." - erik gauger on pupfish in death valley
