September 2008

So I wrote in my backpacking journal on a four-day backpack trip this July in Olympic National Park in Washington (not Greece despite popular belief). The trip was with Summit for Someone, a fundraising climb series benefiting Big City Mountaineers. I had convinced my good friend Lane Keough to take on this adventure with me. After months of fundraising and training, we were finally undertaking what would be my hardest, but most enjoyable, expedition to date.

Our latest grocery getter. We had this old 1980s Huffy in use as a super beater that rode more like a broken wheelbarrow than a bicycle. I finally got bothered enough to do a restomod, on the cheap. I’ve always…