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Rusty Foster
Sometimes the Better Part of Valor is Running Away

Nov 4, 2025

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10 min read

Sometimes the Better Part of Valor is Running Away

Hiker brain is real.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
2000 Miles

Oct 19, 2025

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7 min read

2000 Miles

We’re almost done, but Gatlinburg is still ugly.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
The Things They Carried

Mar 3, 2025

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11 min read

The Things They Carried

One for the gear nerds.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
Preliminary Results

Jan 2, 2025

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10 min read

Preliminary Results

What now?

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
Election Day

Nov 8, 2024

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11 min read

Election Day

The walls are full of wasps.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
Pennsylvania Is Not That Bad

Oct 28, 2024

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14 min read

Pennsylvania Is Not That Bad

It brings me no pleasure to report this.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
By The Numbers

Oct 18, 2024

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2 min read

By The Numbers

Dep’t of weights and measures.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
What’s Next

Oct 13, 2024

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9 min read

What’s Next

I haven’t learned everything I came here to learn yet.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
Beyond The Bryson Threshold

Oct 10, 2024

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4 min read

Beyond The Bryson Threshold

And zombie ramen updates.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
Walk South And See What Happens

Oct 3, 2024

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9 min read

Walk South And See What Happens

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute humidity.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
That’s a Series Wrap on New England

Sep 25, 2024

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5 min read

That’s a Series Wrap on New England

Let’s have a big hand for the colonies, everyone.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
Meetings and Partings

Sep 18, 2024

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13 min read

Meetings and Partings

Charles “Gonzo” Dickens really knew what he was talking about.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
Three Good Days in New Hampshire

Sep 11, 2024

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4 min read

Three Good Days in New Hampshire

I beat Mica at Yahtzee.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
We’re All Going To Live

Sep 8, 2024

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9 min read

We’re All Going To Live

Lunchtime in The Shire, with apologies to Dr. Manhattan.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
Appalachian Book Club

Sep 4, 2024

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9 min read

Appalachian Book Club

Out here in the fields.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
Tall Tales Shelter: The Story of Goose Eye Mountain

Aug 25, 2024

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4 min read

Tall Tales Shelter: The Story of Goose Eye Mountain

A true story which actually happened.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
The Tribulations

Aug 21, 2024

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2 min read

The Tribulations

A forty day update.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
The Mahoosucs Tried To Kill Me

Aug 14, 2024

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11 min read

The Mahoosucs Tried To Kill Me

I lived, bitch.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
The Teenage Woods

Aug 11, 2024

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2 min read

The Teenage Woods

In praise of Maine, upon the occasion of our departure.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
A Perfect Day

Jul 31, 2024

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3 min read

A Perfect Day

What if a hiking story wasn’t about a disaster?

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
The Privilege

Jul 28, 2024

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5 min read

The Privilege

A short update and a hiking meme.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
The Types Of People You Meet In The Woods, Who Are Not Trees

Jul 24, 2024

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3 min read

The Types Of People You Meet In The Woods, Who Are Not Trees

A hundred miles of lists.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
A Faint Brightness

Jul 21, 2024

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2 min read

A Faint Brightness

I had Feelings in the woods.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
Never Did No Wanderin’

Jul 17, 2024

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7 min read

Never Did No Wanderin’

Cursèd, but undeterred.

Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster
Today in Polly on Trail

Jul 14, 2024

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5 min read

Today in Polly on Trail

“Why not something new? What’s my equivalent of a 6-month death march through the buggy hinterlands?"

Rusty Foster
Heather Havrilesky
Rusty Foster, +1
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