25 Nights Out

Over a year ago I was talking backpacking with my gynecologist. Somehow over the course of time spent looking inside my vagina we discovered a mutual love of backpacking. She explained that with her job she has been able to not only hike the John Muir Trail multiple times, but that she spends 20 something nights on the trail a year. I brought this up with my friend and sometimes hiking partner Rebecca and she tried to figure out how that could be possible for her and I. Not necessarily together, just, could we figure out how to spend that many nights out in a year?

It is February 2015 and I have yet to hit the trail except to run my first trail half marathon (Steep Ravine, because if you have run that you deserve the brag), so I can start counting today.

Rebecca contends that in order to hit the mark we should redefine trail night as night out. Night out being a night spent out of doors in just about any capacity, the backyard, car camping, burning man...so, I am going to see what I can do to get it done this year.