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- jlam - May 11 2007 | backpacking, hiking, discovery, American West, Pacific Crest Trail, Ben Foote, friends, journal, travelog
In December 1999 at age 28 a friend took a $5000 workforce reduction buyout and quit his web team job at Xerox, to begin reading and training in earnest to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. In April 2000 he left Rochester to walk 2658 miles from Mexico to Canada, to meet life friends, reconnect with the American West, assess life choices, and then move to Portland.
That adventure begins here linked in a self-hacked Perl travel blog written from the Trail on a Palm III and uploaded using a handheld acoustic modem coupler through public payphones.
Well before the age of Google and Yahoo maps and satellite images, i followed this adventure using paper road maps and http://TopoZone.com. At 1:20000 scale, the digitized United States Geological Survey topographical maps traced the Trail in purple. Alongside i could see the woodlots and feel the hills. I hungered for the West, and still read these epistles from year to year for inspiration.
(Ben, please send corrections if i'm wrong with details. I also syndicate my Blue Dot feed to http://people.tribe.net/jlam .)
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