Oct 20, 2022
On a quick pause while hiking down the trail, Teddy found these twisted roots, demonstrating the constant battle between erosion and life fighting to cling on to the little blue green ball we call home.
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On a quick pause while hiking down the trail, Teddy found these twisted roots, demonstrating the constant battle between erosion and life fighting to cling on to the little blue green ball we call home.
GUYS!
Imma brag real hardcore about my dad here for a sec (said as if I don’t do this on the regular anyways)
He’s not just pretty cool for an old dude, he’s actually pretty cool in general. He’s also pretty intense, and again, not just for an old dude, but compared to most people. And today, he finished something that he set out to do months ago.
He left Springer Mountain in Georgia back on March 29. He hiked 2189.8 miles since then. Today (August 28th), he summited Mt Katahdin in Maine. He’s now officially one of the cool kids, part of the elite club of hikers who have through hiked the Appalachian Trail.
I’m so proud I could burst.
I’m so happy I got to spend a long weekend on the trail with him.
I wish I wasn’t in medical school and could have taken him up on his offer to hike the last few days with him.
With a cloud overhead causing most of the surrounding pass to be shrouded in darkness, Teddy looked down to the glowing blue waters of Lake Ohau. He had just ascended from the shores of the lake, leaving the trees behind as he headed South. One patch of spear grass near Teddy, illuminated by a golden ray of sunshine, reminded him to look for the bright spots that are near by, not just those of places he had left behind.
Somewhere along the Te Araroa Teddy found a moss covered world. Rocks, roots and trees all enveloped in a green swath of sun-dappled softness.
It may seem cool to stack rocks for fun or artistic purposes but moving rocks may inadvertently threaten small mammals and insects and contribute to soil erosion.
In 1896, a man named Waldron Bates created a specific style of hiking cairn in Acadia National Park. The Bates cairns, as they became known, consisted of a rectangular stone balanced atop two legs, then topped with one stone pointing to the trail. These cairns were replaced by standard ones in the 1950s and 1960s. But the park began rebuilding the historic Bates cairns in the 1990s. Acadia now contains a mixture of both.
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Last year, my dad was a badass and through hiked the Appalachian Trail.
Today, my little sister sets off to do the same.
