Tending Toward the Blazes, A Brief Personal Introduction

The Beginning of the End
I spent weeks researching my first backpacking trip, a simple overnight in Washington’s State’s North Cascade National Park. My friend  bailed on me last minute to go to some sorority mixer at Gonzaga University in Spokane. I had the gear ready, the maps, the route, I had spent weeks scouring over trips reports to see if the early snow had melted, reading between the lines, comparing conditions in April for the past ten years. ...

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