Tag: preparing
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20 days to go: assembling meals and training
General update I’ve been busy. I’m nearly 100% done assembling my meals, but the last stretch has been mentally challenging—assembling 120 packages of the same thing! Luckily, my Dad was over for our weekly Tuesday night hang-out and suggested making a large batch and then portioned out into individual servings. I resisted because I worried…
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29 days til start: Food Prep
When you start doing an activity, you realize what an enormous undertaking it is. I’ve been thinking about this trip for quite some time. In my mind, I told myself food prep would be challenging, but it’ll be fine. I’ve done this for all my trips, except that you can easily make a week’s worth of meals in…
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Permit Day
It’s permit day! This is when getting out on the trail and embarking on this momentous adventure becomes real. Up until now, you know it’s coming, but it doesn’t feel real. You’re talking about it and probably have been talking about it for quite a long time, and even longer, you’ve been thinking about it.…