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Tag Archives: Hiking
3.5 in 2019
It’s my third consecutive year of regular hiking, and it continues to be a key ingredient to some much needed balance in my life. This year’s daily average for mileage and steps, 3.5 miles per day or 8775 steps, is … Continue reading
Alta Via 2, Day 5: Happy Trails
Unlike the previous 4 posts in this series, there was never even a fragment of a post for the fifth day of our Alta Via hike. In fact, I’m composing this exactly 5 months after the final day of our … Continue reading
Alta Via Day 3 Or, the High Plains Drifters
I wrote this post on August 7th, the evening following a magical third day of our hike through the Dolemites. You can read the post about day 1 here and day 2 here. I was able to write three posts … Continue reading
Alta Via Day 2 Or, Break on Through to the Other Side
I wrote this post on August 6th, the evening following an epic second day of our hike through the Dolemites. You can read the post about day 1 here, which was actually published in a timely fashion. I was able … Continue reading
Alta Via Day 1 or, If You Really Loved Me You Would Bring Me Edelweiss
So, I’m blogging from my phone because for the first time in about 15 years I left my laptop at home. I’ll be in the mountains for the next 5 days hiking the Dolomites. An upside of not having a … Continue reading
Mini Mt. Marcy
Last month Lauren and I travelled to Skidmore College to run our first Reclaim Roadshow. I thought it was a great success, and Lauren has already blogged her reflections on the two-day workshop/user-group. I agree with her entirely that it … Continue reading
17,405
No, that is not the number of posts on the bava, but rather the average number of steps I need for each of the next 44 days to get to the coveted average of 10,000 every damned day in 2017. … Continue reading
Take a hike, bava!
Selfie on the way up to the Bindesi For the last three or four months I’ve been trying to get with the Trento program, in other words learning to embrace the verticality of my environs. For the first year or … Continue reading
A Hike a Day Keeps the Bava Away
All hail the noiseprofessor If you live in Trentino for long enough, eventually you will give in to the hiking culture. I found it is simply a matter of time. There are so many beautiful places to see here, and … Continue reading