ByCarrot Quinn

Carrot Quinn is a writer and a long-distance hiker. She's currently thru-hiking the 2,800-mile Continental Divide Trail. You can read more about her adventures, and see daily blog posts from the trail, at carrotquinn.com. She's also on Instagram.

  1. You Think You Have Time: Hiking the Lowest to Highest Trail

    ByCarrot Quinn

    in Beauty

    We're walking through a wash in the desert in the dark, and we're thirsty. We've been hiking since five a.m., and left our last water source a few hours after that. In the interim we climbed ten thousand feet cross-country up and over a ridge, stopping on top to look back down at our starting point in Death Valley, then hiked down the other side. The last of the light has long since gone. I'm…

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