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Category: Features

2019 special pics

This year 2019 was monopolized by my thru-hike of the Continental Divide Trail in pretty much every aspect of my life, including the pictures I took. The 2019 selection belongs entirely to the CDT.

Spring

Big peaks in Glacier, wilderness in The Bob, huge, stormy skies and mosquito hell.

Glacier

2018 in pictures

A year of travels in snow, tarmac, rock & dirt summarized in 17 pics.

2018 started with a big dump on the Guadarrama hills. We went out for a bimble, oddly unaware of the chaos that ensued when major roads blocked and thousands were trapped, wondering where everybody was while we had the hills for ourselves for hours of falling powder and silence. It was magic.

Guadarrama

Wildlife and Attitude

  • What do you do about the bears?
  • I talk to them

This was an actual conversation. The answer may not be the most glamorous around but that’s what I found myself saying and it felt to me as very meaningful at the time. It still does.

2017 in pictures

Seasons and chronology fit the story fine. This is how my 2017 looked like:

2016 in 19 pictures

Chronological highlights of the year while travelling by human power.

Preservation, the outdoor experience and motorized access

Human pressure is an environmental issue pretty much everywhere the average human can reach. Protection figures are the common answer but they have limited effectiveness as they often fail to address the root of the problem: ease of access.

The Way of St. James: is it for me?

This is now an internationally famous trail, allegedly the most famous in the world. Many hikers from abroad come over for the journey. In the information age, one could think it’s easy to get such information about anything imaginable, yet it’s surprisingly easy to find people whose expectations about this trail were not met.

Wildlife encounters

Throughout the years I’ve met wildlife many times, as it’d be expected. Some encounters have been very special, be it for the particular animal, the circumstances or the quality of the encounter. Yet it’d be easy for me to pick one up. This is why:

Tell It On The Mountain: the final PCT documentary

The last time I met Shaun “Shooter” Carrigan was in September 2006. We had been meeting regularly on the trail for the last couple months, shooting footage, sharing trail time, talking about life. He told me he wanted to have a film ready for December. I didn’t believe he could.

It’s been almost 7 years but it doesn’t matter: the document is still applying and the result is fantastic. I just watched it myself for the first time and I can say I loved it.

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