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Rusty Foster

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Election Day in the woods, in a nation of cruelty and grace

Election Day was another clear, chilly day in an unbroken string of clear, chilly days that stretches back as far as I can remember. Since...

14.11.2024 1

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Rusty Foster

How we came to part ways on the Appalachian Trail

26.10.2024 3

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Rusty Foster

The agony of New Hampshire, the ecstasy of Vermont

This column has always run several weeks behind the events of my thru hike, which is fine because there was never supposed to be anything...

12.10.2024 50

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Rusty Foster

The teenage woods

In early August, Mica and I made it to Bear River Road in Grafton Notch State Park, a deep, narrow cleft in the Mahoosuc Range between Baldpate...

09.09.2024 3

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Rusty Foster