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Palmetto Trail: Lake Moultrie Passage

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:48:01 +0000

After a poor night’s sleep thanks to my overactive imagination, I’m grateful to start hiking before the sun rises. I nearly skip breakfast, but I can’t ignore my body’s incessant plea for coffee, so I make a caffeinated cup and drink it while I pack up. As I start walking Fredcon Road where I left...

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Palmetto Trail: Santee and Eutaw Springs Passages

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:04:53 +0000

I wake refreshed after a night in a climate-controlled room with a bed. The Baymont Inn offers a complimentary breakfast, and I make an enormous waffle—a guilty pleasure I usually don’t allow myself. The morning is crisp and cold, but I decide to leave my tights packed away. Laziness drives the decision. I know the...

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Wateree Passage of the Palmetto Trail

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 01:44:32 +0000

In my ongoing quest to connect the dots of walking diagonally across the lovely state of South Carolina, I set out to backpack about 130 miles of the Palmetto Trail in January. I intentionally chose the dead of winter since it would inevitably mean fewer ticks, mosquitos and no necks (a.k.a. snakes, especially venomous ones...

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