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I am just a vagabond, a drifter on the run.
And eloquent profanity, it rolls right off my tongue.<\/em> (Lowell George<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Silver Mountain<\/a> gondola, first weekend in March, daydreaming about the upcoming hike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With about two weeks until my hike and an abundance of local snow, skiing has been a great way to keep my legs limber, if not trail-ready. Skiing and hiking both involve moving through space, variations on the Americana ‘road’ theme I’ve found so seductive over the years. I am a wanderer who’s sentimentality for the road is as old and enduring as anything about me. I’ve noticed that as a hike draws closer, the old road stories bubble up from the depths as though awakening from hibernation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier the same day during a nice break in the clouds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Like those first few days of 1984 as I hitchhiked down the coast from the Dead’s New Year’s Eve run at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium<\/a> to La Paz, California, Casar Chavez’s<\/a> communal enclave in the Tehachapi hills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Somewhere on a road near Bakersfield a pickup truck with a camping shell stopped to offer me a ride, the two hippie farmers in the cab yelling for me to hop in the back and “Feel free to fill your pack, man, we’re growers!” Initial disappointment when I found a heap of dried figs under the shell, but short-lived once I realized how long they’d last and how sweet they tasted. A month later I when I set out for the long hitch back to Minnesota I was still eating the last of those damn figs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirty-five years later I’ve got no idea what stories I may accumulate hiking the Continental Divide, but if they bring me as many happy recollections as that mountain of figs in Bakersfield, I’m in for some fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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