Out Walking Grief
I usually only see one of my deceased friends at a time. They are all present, but typically the candle is only enough illumination for one Soul.
Yakety Yaak
By Rue McKenrick I have never witnessed such bellowing smoke before. The “Yaak” the “Yaak” the “Yaak” is on fire, […]
A Stupid T-shirt
“One more and then we’re done,” the Phlebotomist assured me. The lab at St. Charles Medical Center had a Christmas song playing on the PA.
10/24/2020
On October 24, 2020 Rue made the difficult and courageous decision to end his continuous foot path on the first scout of the APT. After a long, intermittent illness and early intense snowfall he determined that it was no longer safe for him to continue the westward journey any farther than the Bismarck, North Dakota area where he stopped.
August 2020
There has been much that has occurred this past month for Rue and the APT. He began the month in the southeastern section of Michigan just over the Ohio border, still recovering when when a tree fell on him while sleeping in his hammock. From there he progressed northwest towards the Grand Rapids area and then due north towards the famous Mackinaw Bridge. He hiked a mix of the North Country Trail and a route of his own making, preferring the beautiful forests to road walking. Early in the […]
Social Isolation
This is a practice in response to the global pandemic. It is not new, for it weighs heavily in traditional backpacking procedure and ethics. It has two main goals as it pertains to the outbreak of Covid-19.To Foster a solitary Backcountry expedition.To mitigate the exposure to human contact. The practice is comprised of two methodologies. The application of soft/interpersonal skills and the utilization of hard/technical backcountry skill sets. These are experiential learning processes that must […]
