By The Numbers

Dep’t of weights and measures.

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Rusty Foster
October 18, 2024

Thru-hiking is an intensely quantitative activity. Days, hours, minutes, miles, feet, pounds, liters, and calories are my constant concern. So here is the hike so far, in its own native idiom.

If discussion of calories and body weight is troubling to you, there is a little of that coming up. Please remember that this is all in the context of a wildly disordered way to live, and should in no way be viewed as aspirational.

Some picturesque ruins in Maryland. There was likely a sign or placard that would have told me what this is, but if so, I didn’t read it.

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