Still the best cover of any book ever.

Kill the cool kids.

Hey, I just lost that last little sliver of respect I had for Henry Rollins.




Insecure, Henry?
http://streetbonersandtvcarnage.com/blog/rollins-vs-hipsters/

http://streetbonersandtvcarnage.com/blog/hey-teacher-leave-those-kids-alone/
http://newyork.timeout.com/things-to-do/this-week-in-new-york/8355/why-the-hipster-must-die


I don't even care if Gavin's taking the piss a little. He's still right. And that Christian Lorentzen article is garbage to a point where it's not even remotely funny how much he has no clue.
That was a poorly constructed sentence right there.
Fuck your anti-hipster bullshit.

I can unlock all of your locks.

Michael's Le CDT plans and challenges (I want more challenges. Challenge me):

1. 1000 Poptart Challenge (wonder if they would sponsor me....)
2. 100 mile One Candy Challenge (maybe).
3. One Meal One Section Challenge (I swear I'll do it this time).
4. McUltimate Challenge.
5. Double Double Down Challenge.
6. Break the 50 mile day Challenge.
7. Cut down the casual swearing Challenge.
8. On Trail Zero Day.
9. No Beard this year because it looks awful.
10. Only use my tarp if I really have to. Cowboy!
11. 10+ Peak Bags. At least.
12. Actually take photos of interesting things. I'm going to be one of those ultra-irritating camera all the time people, if my camera co-operates. 

That was me in early June. So how successful was I? How proud would June Michael be of November Michael?

1. Oh yeah.
2. 108 Miles. Thanks Timmy. Never again.
3. After completing the previous challenge, this one seemed somewhat redundant.
4. Forgot...
5. Nope.
6. I still hate the fact that I was sick that day. Dangnit.
7. Nope, joker didn't help...
8. Nope, got a nero in the Winds, that's about it.
9. Yes! No beard!
10. Montana was too wet and I never was able to trust Wyoming. Colorado I cowboyed a lot and probably slept out all but six nights in New Mexico. Also, was rained on once in each state, delightful.
11. And how.
12. Nope. Thankfully, RT took piles of amazing photos.

5/12 I suck.

And that is it for the CDT. Done. Awesome. Thanks. Word.

When you attempt things like this,

The Heaps Recovery Position is oft required.

Yas has his version, I'm sure it is better.

Cake.

Hawkeye's needs more horizontal.

Half-dozen Hotdogs.

Credit to Ben, my co-creator (in ChCh with 2 litres of icecream).

Photos by RT again.

Hey! Remember when I was complaining about the giant lump in my Thermarest?

Dangnit.

Northernorthern Newew ¡Mexico!

 Box Canyon!!!

Saint Johns (they were right, you were magnificent).

Drinking the source of the Rio Grande.

Wonderful hiking and distracting views. The rubbly mountains could have used a dusting of snow but I'm not complaining.

Hawkeye and Kombucha hiding from a hailstorm.

The day it rained. And then it rained some more. It didn't stop. We death marched.

Wigwam for ever.

Yeah, we did.

The truth of the matter is I am Satan and on the guitars we have Devils. This is Devil music.

Hiking with people is the greatest. But I still enjoy musically assisted hiking. Even if the Creative Zen is a terrible mp3 player (with some good ideas, shame really)
What I listened to this year:

1. Street Smart Cyclist.
2. Brand New.
3. Foals.
4. Conversations with Richard Fidler (ABC Radio National).
5. The Hood Internet.
6. Harrison Bergeron.
7. C.W. Stoneking.
8. Against Me!
9. Mitch Hedburg.
10. I Would Set Myself On Fire For You.
11. Marble House by The Knife
12. Mathletixx by Emergency! Emergency!
13. I Poke Her Face by Kid Cudi (feat. Kanye West, Common and Lady Gaga).
14. 100 Minutes Of Silence by The Mint Chicks.
15. Are You Lonesome Tonight? (laughing version) by Elvis Presley

More than you.

 Joker, Heaps, RT, Hawkeye. The Half-Gallon, Pie and Chicken Tenders Challenge.

 Boston Creme Cake.

That Burger.

Resupply, Tecate and HotPockets.

All photos by RT (yeah, even that one he's in).

Don't reinvent what you don't understand.

In Portland, OR. Still want to live here.
Have a few more photos and stuff to upload so keep checking back. I'll get there.
Flying home in a couple weeks, back to New Zealand, back to summer.
Back to a job...
Have to find a job...
Should get a job...
Maybe I'll hike...
No...
Need a job...
Probably going to hike the Bib in WA next year, very much looking forward to it. Especially after hearing positive things from Buck-30. Care to join me? Please?
http://www.bibbulmuntrack.org.au/
Don't let the fact that their logo is a snake discourage you, Australian snakes are afraid of me, I swear.
Then back to NZ for another summer before I finally go back to git educated some.
Maybe a speed hike of the TeAraroa before January?
Yes?

Compliment each other like Colorado.

Moon rises.


















Don't fuck with America ski-people.



































Three naked Hawkeyes. San Luis Peak




Freezing our lives away on Snow Mesa.

xxx, Wyoming by The Summer We Went West. I miss you.

DnA at the Idaho/Wyoming Border.









Yellowstone colours.





Yellowstone Bears.









Wind River Range.









In The Cirque of the Towers, Wind River Range.












Fording, in the rain, in the 'dry' Great Divide Basin