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I drive a loader a lot.

I get maybe two or three months where the weather isn't so cold that it could actually kill you, so I am utterly unsympathetic to your "fuck summer" posts.

Summer rules. That is all.

#the summers here are the best ever #remember when there were bugs everywhere and wildflowers grew in the ditch? that still happens here

I built a fence for mountain goats. It is much steeper than it looks.

It was very hard work. I am quite proud of it.

the road to the shrine was completely washed out, and the trailhead was off by about half a km because they measured from an entrance that is no longer in use.

I am Exhausted!

I have forgotten the names of so many awesome bands and it's really bumming me out.

Thinking about all the time I've spent On The Road, I understand that I truly do not enjoy driving everywhere anymore.

It is a pain in the ass. It is a test of patience and forbearance. Everything about it pisses me off. Other than social media, it is the best place to find out that your neighbours are total morons.

This is why I can only really live centrally, or in the middle of the woods. Living in a town, or on the edge of a small city, blows goats. I need to be able to walk everywhere I need to get, or I need to live somewhere where I am justified in spending 5000 dollars on two pallets of groceries at the equinox and never going fucking anywhere ever.

the most boring drive through alberta is the QE2. By far.

It's a miserable slog the entire way. You're hemmed in and crowded by every asshole in Alberta, and it goes through Red Deer, which is its own kind of fuckin problem.

The only interesting things that happen on it are usually terrible and often fatal.

If you have the time to spare, take the Cowboy Trail instead.

The fastest I've driven from Edmonton to Whitehorse is one full day, hot swapping the driver's seat with a buddy.

It doesn't get dark, so you can haul ass without worrying too much about the critters, 'cept near Watson cuz the beefalo like to chill on the blacktop.

Once you get to Fort Nelson, you're chasing the sunset the whole way.

#driving by Liard hot springs is always kind of a bummer tho #don't do it unless you really have to

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I miss when all the old roadhouses on the Alaska Highway were still open. It's a lonely road, sometimes.

gonna hike a mountain this weekend because my buddhist homie wants to check out a shrine somewhere on tselgi shaa (mt. montana) above Carcross.

the only trail description I can find is thirty years old, and all the trails have massively changed, but should be fun! put my orienteering skills to work.