Letter To My Benefactor

Dear Benefactor, I think you will be so proud of me. I went hiking for seven days in a row. Yes, you read that correctly… seven. According to my Fitbit, I: August 24 Walked 10,128 steps, burned 852 calories, and had an average heart rate of 104 bpm. August 25 Walked 10,646 steps, burned 954 […]

  Dear Benefactor, The hike I’m going to tell you about now was not as eventful as the last one I told you about. However, the night before was interesting. I think I told you two letters ago that I was really trying to branch out and do different trails rather than the Fragrance Trail […]

Dear Benefactor, Just because I haven’t written you since August 2, does not mean I have not been hiking. I have so many stories, I hardly know where to start. Well, when I last left you, I was eating four Drumsticks to negate the 926 calories I had just burned on my hike over the […]

Dear Benefactor, Like I was telling my good friend, Fran Drescher, I’ve been biking and hiking, and then hiking some more. You know how I usually end up on the Fragrance Lake Trail over and over and over and over? You’d be so proud of me. I told myself I was going to branch out […]

Benefactor! Benefactor! Benefactor! (Say that three times fast….) I have some good news. I think. You know how I was telling you that I wanted to try my hand at sleeping in the woods overnight? I bought a new Mountain Hardwear backpacking sleeping bag at REI six days ago. I had a $20 coupon ready […]

Dear Benefactor, I don’t think I told you. A little over a month ago, I had some horrible sleeping problems due to my thyroid going into overdrive. Again. It seems to be brought on by stress and well, I guess I’ve been a bit stressed lately, running myself ragged, so to speak. As an aside, […]

Dear Benefactor, A friend of Adriana’s is hiking the PCT in a few weeks. She is from Australia and I think she is a very brave woman. Her name is Naomi. She stayed with us for a couple days before hanging out in a “Hiker’s Haven” to wait for some snow to melt. I got […]

Dear Benefactor, I was just wondering if you think I’d ever be brave enough to hike into mountains like those behind our heads in this photo, possibly even stay at least one night. I’ve told you about my various fears: 1. Bears 2. Cougars 3. Pooping in the woods I’ve made it through cancer and […]