ANDREW GLENN aka PEANUT ~ THRU HIKING GEAR & TRAIL WISDOMS
GEAR
FEET
• Nike Wildhorse
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FOOD
• Jetboil Stove
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SLEEP
• Western Mountaineering 20 degree Bag
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• Zlite Sleeping Pad
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• Therm-A-Rest XTherm
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• Kammok 10 & 15 Degree Ultra Lite Quilt
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MISC
• Guthook App
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• Great Divide Trail
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• Maggie Rogers singer/songwriter
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WISDOMS
THRU HIKING
• There’s something about the last stretches where I kinda saw a new part of myself that
was very unfamiliar and that I really, really loved.
• I know that I will continue to, over the next two weeks, two months, two years - I’ll continue to learn from this summer and especially that last stretch into Kakwa Lake.
• All these trails continue to both lead us to new abilities but also really recognize our capacity -
what we’re really able to do.
• What the CDT taught me and what a lot of the GDT kinda confirmed was that being alone doesn’t
have to look like loneliness. It can look like solitude.
• There’s a lot of loneliness that can come after trail. I definitely experienced that after the PCT
and how to mitigate those fears now, learning from what I learned on trail. And so it’s pressing
into friendships, it’s challenging each other, it’s learning how to have a metaphorical sit down on
the side of the trail and catch up for five seconds.
• I was worried about being alone and I was alone but it wasn’t loneliness.
• Don’t beat yourself up by just hiking north. There’s a lot of courage and a lot of respect for just knowing when to call it or when to create an alternate whether it’s getting off trail, taking time off, turning a thru hike into a long ass section hike or just getting off trail completely.
• There is something extremely therapeutic about dancing in the wilderness by yourself.
• Taking space out of gratitude.
• The only way out is North.
• I’m human. To be human is a beautiful thing. And we have so much power and our bodies
are capable of so much. Our minds are capable of so much.
• What we’re doing, yes it’s badass and it’s awesome. It’s hardcore, but it’s also, it’s hiking
and we’re living outside and we get to have these moments that are just pretty goofy.
And I think that is the true spirit of thru hiking.
• I remember just feeling completely unsafe and not trusting my own judgement and choosing to make camp even at like 4:30/5:00 in the afternoon because I didn’t trust my judgement moving forward. So I was grateful for a dry sleep system to recalibrate the brain, understand “Hey you’re safe. You have shelter and warmth. It’s ok. Reassess the situation. Tomorrow’s a new day. You gotta keep on hiking.”
• My trip this summer cause a lot of it was solo, but I also learned how to even in a solo hike learning
how to share that with others.
• One of the things I’ve learned the most from thru hiking and especially from continuing to thru hike and continuing to hike having to shift my perspective of beauty. And of the things that spark wonder. And having to shift the perspective from just being awed and dazzled by kinda that macro level of beauty…the mountain passes, the big peaks, and those large forests and these things that kinda are the big photo moment. But those things get kinda dull after awhile. And they become routine because they’re your surroundings. They’re the walls of your home, even if you’re in a new spot every single day, every single mile. The familiar of it can become….it’s a little sad.
• One thing I’ve learned a lot is having to shift a standard of beauty from big mountain passes to the micro things. And looking at patterns in rocks and looking at wildflowers, even budding of wildflowers.
• Training myself to be just as amused at the budding wildflower as the glacier covered peak.
• I get into weird head spirals when I make beauty really objective.
• Long distance hiking has helped open a communication with self that has improved
my mental health and I’m so grateful for it.
• I just have to trust that these experiences are building me up for something greater.