On Brightness

Bouleau.

This is the French word for birch.

Yeeesh Maweesh

Yeeeesh. Slow going here, kids. At least it’s pretty. Look at it. These pictures were brought to you with much losing the trail, slogging through deep wet snow, being rained on, pack frame breaking, inflatable pad deflating forever, holes generating in…

Ole Sail’s Terrible Guide to IAT New Brunswick (northern section)

Here’s a short, sweet, lacking-in-some-ways-but-we-won’t-ever-tell-Sail-that-because-she-might-cry-or-something northbound IAT NB trail guide.

The actual top of Mt. Carleton, and other photos

Fine, alright. Here’s what Mt. Carleton looked like the next morning: 

This is the top of New Brunswick

Hey, hooligans.

First please, we should establish that probably the only reason I like winter hiking is because I forget how cold it is during the winter. Second, I forget because I am dumb. Third…

Late morning reflections, with corvids.

[trail writings, recorded in my science logs sometime in November?? 2017, from a cliff in northern Virginia]

Grumble grump off vacation grump

Guys…

I know it’s smart to not be up north right now.

1. It is warm down here.
2. I get to see family.
3. Friends, huzzah! Errybody loves a good friendship.

Mor pictchas

Maybe if I wasn’t so busy reading and sleeping, and eating things, I’d edit these and pretend to be a photographer human. Alas. Here’s a few more photos from November and October:

Sweet Texas BBQ, is this warmth???

Hooligans.

Happy Christmas, Hanukkah, winter solstice, happy new year to all your faces. The days are getting longer again.

Three weeks in Presque Isle, and 18 days in Canada

In which we finish much science, then saunter over into good Canadia for a while, yissss