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Adventure and advice from a hiker with type 1 diabetes
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JMT Days -1 to 1: The Beginning
I started hiking the John Muir Trail on July 4th, 2024, with my parents. The trail runs from Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley to the top of Mt. Whitney, 206 miles through the High Sierras in California. The trail mostly follows the same path as the Pacific Crest Trail through the mountains, which I hiked…
New State, Same Cold Weather
The time had come. No longer would my New England Trail adventures be confined to one state. For only the third (and fourth) time in my life, I was hiking across state lines. I arrived at the trailhead a tenth of a mile north of the Massachusetts-Connecticut border at about 14:30. The last storm of…
MA NET: Section 10, an Adventure in Four Parts
It having been almost a month since my last adventure, I was very happy to be outside hiking again. Reflecting on it, this trip divided very neatly split into 4 parts. The first part started, as it usually does, at the beginning. This day’s adventure began in a parking lot at the edge of the…
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