# Today on Trail

> A Work in Progress

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## Posts
- [I Lived](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/i-lived): How many bones is a normal amount for a place to have?
- [Today on Trail Season 2: The Arctic](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/today-on-trail-season-2-the-arctic-1a05): “I can take a mountain guy and we go anywhere, because I know they are strong in the mind.”
- [Sometimes the Better Part of Valor is Running Away](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/sometimes-the-better-part-of-valor-is-running-away): Hiker brain is real.
- [2000 Miles](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/2000-miles-4251): We’re almost done, but Gatlinburg is still ugly.
- [The Things They Carried](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/the-things-they-carried): One for the gear nerds.
- [Preliminary Results](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/preliminary-results): What now?
- [Election Day](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/election-day): The walls are full of wasps.
- [Pennsylvania Is Not That Bad](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/pennsylvania-is-not-that-bad): It brings me no pleasure to report this.
- [By The Numbers](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/by-the-numbers): Dep’t of weights and measures.
- [What’s Next](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/what-s-next): I haven’t learned everything I came here to learn yet.
- [Beyond The Bryson Threshold](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/beyond-the-bryson-threshold): And zombie ramen updates.
- [Walk South And See What Happens](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/walk-south-and-see-what-happens): No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute humidity.
- [That’s a Series Wrap on New England](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/that-s-a-series-wrap-on-new-england): Let’s have a big hand for the colonies, everyone. 
- [Meetings and Partings](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/meetings-partings): Charles “Gonzo” Dickens really knew what he was talking about.
- [Three Good Days in New Hampshire](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/three-good-days-new-hampshire): I beat Mica at Yahtzee.
- [We’re All Going To Live](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/going-live): Lunchtime in The Shire, with apologies to Dr. Manhattan.
- [Appalachian Book Club](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/appalachian-book-club): Out here in the fields.
- [Tall Tales Shelter: The Story of Goose Eye Mountain](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/tall-tales-shelter-story-goose-eye-mountain): A true story which actually happened.
- [The Tribulations](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/tribulations): A forty day update.
- [The Mahoosucs Tried To Kill Me](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/mahoosucs-tried-kill): I lived, bitch.
- [The Teenage Woods](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/teenage-woods): In praise of Maine, upon the occasion of our departure.
- [A Perfect Day](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/perfect-day): What if a hiking story wasn’t about a disaster?
- [The Privilege](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/privilege): A short update and a hiking meme.
- [The Types Of People You Meet In The Woods, Who Are Not Trees](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/types-people-meet-woods-not-trees): A hundred miles of lists.
- [A Faint Brightness](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/faint-brightness): I had Feelings in the woods.
- [Never Did No Wanderin’](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/never-no-wanderin): Cursèd, but undeterred. 
- [Today in Polly on Trail](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/today-polly-trail): “Why not something new? What’s my equivalent of a 6-month death march through the buggy hinterlands?"
- [Get Yourself A Rain Skirt](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/get-rain-skirt): Gear and food updates during the hiatus.
- [Mistakes Were Made](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/mistakes-made): Sometimes you have to start with a pause.
- [We're Off](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/off)
- [Writing My Way Out Of A Week-Long Panic Attack](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/writing-way-weeklong-panic-attack): Only four days left. Eek.
- [Why Am I Doing This?](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/why-am-i-doing-this): Today in crabs.
- [Ethical Non-Monotony](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/ethical-nonmonotony): Your Q's thoroughly A'ed in the inaugural ToT mailbag.
- [Critical Fail: The Pemi Wilderness](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/critical-fail-pemi-wilderness): My first epic. "We don't like this at all." 
- [Local Man Not Hopelessly Decrepit](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/local-man-not-hopelessly-decrepit): Plus: paid memberships are live, and today in birds. 
- [Never Going Back](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/never-going-back): At least I'll never have to do that again, he lied.
- [Gear Talk, Part One](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/gear-talk-one): At last, what you've all been waiting for.
- [The Test Hike Was a Fiasco](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/test-hike-fiasco): Every plan works if you change the plan when it stops working.
- [My Outdoor Resumé, Part One](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/outdoor-resum-part-one): Everybody starts somewhere. 
- [Welcome to Today on Trail](https://www.todayontrail.com/p/welcome): It’s really not for me to say whether this is a placeholder post.

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