toejam
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Hiking to raise awareness
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Post by toejam on Aug 27, 2015 4:43:02 GMT -8
I carry cheap little pocket-sized note books and try to write a little every day. I have fantasies of having a super interesting blog of my trips where I develop mad prose skills and eventually become a famous writer. But it always pisses my wife off when I come home from a trip and sit at the computer organizing pictures and writing trip reports, so I do very little of it.
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amaruq
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Call me Little Spoon
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Post by amaruq on Aug 28, 2015 10:26:36 GMT -8
When I first started getting into the long distance game I kept a technical log in which I would record overall trip details including starting pack weight, trail name with departure trailhead, and anticipated total distance. I would also include anything special that I chose to bring along and the reasoning. Daily entries would include date, weather, time "stamps" for hiking and resting, distance covered, locations of rests, interesting things seen, quantity and type of food eaten, quantity of water filtered and consumed, and any aches or injuries sustained and their (likely) cause(s).
A little bit more sterile than Muir's elegant musings, but it really aided in tracking my progress, finding my limits, and working out an efficient pack strategy. My writing in general has been tainted by the lifeless technical style hard-coded into professionals - doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. That is to say, I couldn't write as elegantly as Mr. Muir should I beat my log entries with a thesaurus a la truck-stop novella.
Photographs have always been my means of communicating the beauty (or oddities) that I stumble upon. The ones that have some sort of interesting background saga would be saved with said tale written into the image metadata.
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rebeccad
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Writing like a maniac
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 4, 2015 7:22:27 GMT -8
That is to say, I couldn't write as elegantly as Mr. Muir should I beat my log entries with a thesaurus a la truck-stop novella. Maybe not, but that's a nice turn of phrase!
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bcpete
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There's cool, and then there's me.
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Post by bcpete on Sept 6, 2015 6:23:29 GMT -8
My wife & I have recorded every hike we've ever done - going back 25 years now. Stats on mileage, animal sightings, dayhike vs overnight trip - plus a summary of the trip. We started with paper journals, but converted it to MS Word & Excel many years ago. We print out each year, and bind it up in book form. After 25 years, it's priceless to have. Cool fact ... up here in BC, you will have to backpack/hike about 7,000 kms in the Cdn Rockies to have a wolverine sighting (we've had 3)!
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