Category Archives: mtnINSPIRATION

Single Day, Super-Extended Pemi Loop – a lesson in suffering

CONTRIBUTION BY NATE WEEKS

Dawn breaks at Bondcliff, 2.5 hours into the loop.

Dawn breaks at Bondcliff, 2.5 hours into the loop.

At long last, Andrew finally came from from the PCT last Friday. When I talked to him earlier in the week, we both figured out that we wanted to have a big day over the weekend, so we figured we’d tackle the Super-Extended Pemi Loop. This loop is the standard Extended Pemi, plus Zealand, Hale, and North Twin. We weren’t quite sure of the mileage or elevation gain, but we knew it would be 40+ with well over 12,000′, so we decided to do it with a goal of 16 hours. Continue reading →

How Hiking Mountains has Made Work More Tolerable

CONTRIBUTION FROM RIPLEY ELIZABETH, Walking-Uphill.com

Ripley Elizabeth
I don’t have a great job – lets just put that out there. It’s not a horrible job, there’s a lot of worse things I could be doing, but it’s the kind of job you find yourself in when you haven’t really been paying attention to where you want to go in life. Suddenly you realize you’ve been working in this place for five years, none of your skills are transferable, and if you go anywhere else you’ll have to take a serious pay cut. You resign yourself to working here for the rest of your life and slowly sink into apathy. Continue reading →