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Things I Have Ingested While Backpacking: An Incomplete List

Things I Have Ingested While Backpacking: An Incomplete List

May 18, 2016 · by Shawnte Salabert · in backpacking, food, outdoors, Pacific Crest Trail

Swedish Fish candies (red only) Chocolate pudding containing all of the things we couldn’t fit into our bear canister that night The charred remains of a solitary square of over-fried SPAM Multiple unidentified winged creatures, raw Crushed Pringles, with a…

(Emotionally) Naked and Afraid

(Emotionally) Naked and Afraid

December 10, 2015 · by Shawnte Salabert · in backpacking, mountains, outdoors, Pacific Crest Trail, Sierra

In a flash of quick hugs and lingering dust, Marc was gone. I waved at his receding form a bit longer than necessary, my hand mindlessly stirring up the atmospheric inferno that was already brewing well before lunchtime. I shouldered…

The Pacific Crest Trail: An Epilogue

The Pacific Crest Trail: An Epilogue

August 13, 2015 · by Shawnte Salabert · in backpacking, mountains, outdoors, Pacific Crest Trail, Sierra

Three weeks ago, I sat slumped against a picnic table outside of the Tuolumne Meadows Grill, knocking back beer and fries with ravenous, calorie-deprived abandon. It was the end of my summer in the wild, living as free as I…

A Day on the PCT in the High Sierra

A Day on the PCT in the High Sierra

July 30, 2015 · by Shawnte Salabert · in mountains, outdoors

Without fail, I wake to a bursting bladder at 4:48 or 4:52 or some other time a hair or two before my alarm, and decide to ignore both the shrill ring and the sharp pain in search of another fifteen…

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Shawnté Salabert writes about land and people, and the intersection of the two.

Her book Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail: Southern California is out November 2017 via Mountaineers Books.

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