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Sierra is back in the Sierras faster than you can say Gorpcore

On August 27th, 2023, I started Hormone Replacement Therapy.

On August 27th, 2024, I summited the tallest point in the Continental US via the High Sierra Trail.

Both were things I knew I wanted to do for... Well, most of my life, but never had the guts to follow through. Until I got burned out enough that I realized I couldn't spend the rest of my life ignoring things like that.

It took a lot of troubleshooting to actually get HRT to work, but by late spring, I was hormonally female. Changes started to take off, and will continue for years- I'm starting to look back and wonder what I was worried about.

Training for the HST also took time, and again, I don't know what I was worried about. By the time I had "built up" to the HST, I had already done several things that were just as or more strenuous, and it went by easily.

Of course, that didn't make it any less spectacular. The pictures here follow my slow 7 days on the HST, starting at the Giant Forest, over the Kaweah gap, down into Kern Canyon, and over Whitney. The granite features of the Sierras are always incredible, and doing it on foot means a first hand look at all of the tiny shifts in flora and fauna along the way.

I'm slowly starting research back up, and feel way better about it than I did before. But now that I have the skill set, I'm absolutely gonna head back into the mountains from time to time, and I'm already dreaming about more ambitious hiking goals for the next few years. I'm coming for you someday, JMT.

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The kid and I did another long walk today with a hike thrown in there. About 15,000 steps. Felt pretty good.

There were some steeper areas but luckily it wasn’t too wet or slippery.

The kid didn’t want any photos taken of herself so I just took them of the back of her head. lol.

When we reached the top, the view was partially blocked but we still took out our portable chairs, had a rest and some water.

It started to sprinkle a bit so we left. The weather was still fairly warm, though.

We walked for another 20 minutes to a local market and had burgers. Mine was veggie. It was really good.

Now, I’m having peppermint tea and listening to the book club book: The Winter Witch by Jennifer Chevalier. I’m only a few chapters in and still trying to figure out characters and plot.

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Before I got into plants, I avidly hiked. Over the last weekend I went back to those roots and realized how much I missed being out on the trail and away from the world.