I have this idea: make a big bag out of no see um netting with elastic, lycra binding, or a draw cord at one end. Then throw the big bag over my umbrella when I’m hiking and secure it around my waist for the ultimate head net. At night, I could sleep under it, when the weather is nice but the bugs aren’t. Good idea?
SimBLISSity.net sells something like this that weighs 4 oz. (113 grams) The Inner Peace bug free haven
For everyone who is selling all their stuff and going on a long hike, Ben and Lauren offer up some online selling advice. http://bltadventure.blogspot.com/2007/04/benmart.html
A happy upbeat musical movie about finding happiness, beauty, and individual expression in a world of prefab buildings, consumerism, efficiency, and clones. “There will be chairs for your convenience, so you don’t have to sit on your coolers.”
This is one of the best movies ever made.
Here is an great BBC documentary available for download on youtube It’s the story of a church were everyone is related, most of them are lawyers, and they hate everyone who isn’t them. The most hated people in America. I have a dial up connection; it took me 2 1/2 days to download it, but it was worth it.
Yesterday I went to the library to get some tax forms printed out. I was sitting at the computer terminal. At the terminal beside me, I hear, “Look, you better call me or I will tell your wife where you slept last night.” I looked over at the guy sitting next to me, he pulls out his phone, looks at it, and then puts it back in his pocket. About 2 minutes later the same thing happens.
Over at the Yahoo pct2007 group, the Sawyer water filter continues to get converts. One of the group posted these pictures of it. The person also put a slit filter and a carbon filter inline. It looks like a really great thing… but I have already bought 4 packages of Aqua Mira so probably for this trip– Aqua Mira it will be.
Update: I bought it and so far have not gotten it to work. Read my review here
This deer has been hanging around my cabin for a few hours… I think it is hiding out from a coyote or mountain lion that might be stalking it. I think sometimes deer hang out with people to avoid predators. Sometimes when I’m on the trail, a deer will hang out at my tent all night.
On my walk, there is a big cat that I always see running into this old cabin. Today it was sitting in the window frame. I wish this cat would come live with me… I would like a pet that wouldn’t mind if I didn’t come home for 5 months.
Update:
The year I thru-hiked the PCT, on the trail for the first 500 miles or so, about every 20-30 miles, under a rock, was a laminated letter from a kid in Mr. Snyder’s class. The letters offered words of encouragement and told us about challenges that the kids had overcome. One letter said, “The pain in your feet is just the doubt in your head.”
Today I heard a live band playing that sounded like it was right outside of my door. I hiked all over my land trying to find the hippie festival that I imagined had set up camp at my place. The nearest people to me with electricity are 2 miles away; I can’t believe that the sound would carry up the hill that well. I’m not kidding you, I heard the words of the songs, I heard the band say “Thank you, very much” while I was sitting in my cabin. Man, it had to be loud at their place.
The buttercups have started to bloom at my cabin. They are the first flower in a parade of wildflowers that bloom here.
Today on my walk I saw red-winged blackbirds for the first time this year.
Today on my walk, I saw the bluest bird I have ever seen. Searching through my bird book, I think it was a Mountain Bluebird, but I’m not sure.