GEAR

PACK

• ZPack Arc Blast
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• Superior Wilderness Design Longhaul 50L
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SLEEP

• Feathered Friends Swift UL 20 Sleeping Bag
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• Enlightened Equipment Revelation 20 Quilt
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• NeoAir Xtherm
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• Zpack Duplex
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MISC

• Guthooks App
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• Melanzana
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• Garmin InReach
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WISDOMS

THRU HIKING

• I’m going to push myself because that’s what I signed up for.  I didn’t want to back down.

• I don’t think I can remember any sense of fear on the trail.  It was just a matter of I’m just not sure what was going to happen next.  I’m just going to keep going.

• Before starting the trail I was just thinking about how this would be a good opportunity to embrace the uncertainty and being able to adapt to the always changing environment that we’d be putting ourselves through on the trail.  Get myself out of the comfort zone.

• I know I’m not going to know what’s going to happen ahead but I just want to be open to that.

• I guess I look at challenges now with I guess I would say I’m a bit more optimistic about things.  I don’t’ really think about what could go wrong.

• It’s helped me become more adaptable.

• Rather than basing what I decide to do on someone else’s experience I just tell myself “you won’t ever know until you do it yourself”.

• I enjoyed every bit of it, despite the suck.

• Just being out there just has a great emotional effect on your soul.

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