Spending months (or maybe month?) out on the Pacific Crest Trail, you are guaranteed to run into some wildlife. This wildlife could be as boring as the “cheeseburger” birds taunting you with reminders of food you can’t eat (Cheeseburger bird? Yes, cheeseburger bird. Go hike the PCT and you’ll know what I’m talking about), or […]
Casual Israeli Ibex
I did not expect there to be much wildlife in Israel. I don’t know why. Maybe it was because the desert brought to mind dry desolate expanses or terrain devoid of life and filled with hostile living conditions (like Tatooine…filled with sand people). Yet my preconceptions and assumptions were again proven incorrect (I really need […]
How To Not Be Eaten by Bears
Plenty of things can kill you whilst walking alone for hundreds of miles in isolated woods: hypothermia, starvation, dysentery, hatchet murderers, the headless horseman, lightning strikes, and the most terrifying of all – bears. Imagine yourself snuggled into your sleeping bag late one night, just beginning to feel the night’s sleep come to take you, […]
