In the hot, dry summer of 1999, I backpacked a section of the Appalachian Trail (near Waynesboro, Va.) with my two friends and their two dogs. Here are three scenes from that trip, drawn with very little exaggeration, in which our precious water supply was low, and the running stream  that we’d expected to find had […]

     In the summer of 1989, Hibble, Pibble, and Sibble (names we’d given ourselves) made what was then an epic journey across the country to explore the west coast. The journey was a playful and exhilarating adventure for us, and a true bonding experience. We hiked and camped in remote regions of the Great Northwest so as […]