In preparation for my wedding this coming Sunday, I spent the last 3 days in the woods. A 26 mile solo backpack in the Ypsemiote high country, followed by some good hitchhiking to get back to my car and a…
Tag: hiking
Wondering and Wandering
I’m lying in my car, I’m wide awake, I just awoke and it’s pitch black, I step outside to pee, feel the cool gravel pebbles on my feet and look up at the stars. I say asher yatzar with my…
My latest backpacking adventure
I laughed suddenly, as I hiked briskly up the Pine Ridge Trail into the Ventanna wilderness, I have this habit recently up laughing like a wild man whenever I realize that I am finally living my dream. I can’t believe…
Don’t worry I’m not dead, my internet is just down
Having no internet where I live has its advantages, I get sleep at a good time and have been able to make it to shul in the mornings more often, the disadvantages are that you get to suffer with less…
I know I haven’t written about the outdoors in a while…
The following is not satire nor is it funny, but many folks miss the fact that I rarely write anything about my own life, my blog used to be a bit more biographical, but then I decided to make it…
Brief summary of my road trip to Maine
Having already taken off three weeks in the beginning of summer to go to Spain and Israel I didn’t even want to ask about taking off for and end of summer road trip which seems like it has become minhag…
I will be in Maine for the next two weeks
So I will not be responding to emails, facebook messages, tweets or blogging as frequently as I normally do. That doesn’t mean I won’t show you all some love by pre-scheduling posts for the days I will be backpacking Katahdin…
Hashgacha prutus in Harriman State Park
This post will be posted on my Jewish outdoors blog as well. If you would like to add my outdoors blog to your blogroll I would appreciate it and obviously do the same. At about 6pm last evening I had…