Wayne's Adventure (In Motion)

Location: Toaster House, Pie Town, NM 6/1/2024 Pie Town, NM is a tiny hamlet in a seemingly endless stretch of empty highway. It began when a rancher family opened a shed selling apple pies in the 1920’s along Hwy 60 in the middle of nowhere. But it caught on. Now Pie Town has TWO pie…

So, you only carry one change of clothes. Because you get to choose…clothing OR water and food. And you measure by the gram. By the time you finally get to a town with a laundromat, any clothes you own have been on your body for 14 straight days and are completely stiff with sweat, dirt,…

One of the most satisfying and horrifying aspects of thru-hiking in general and the CDT specifically is Immediacy of Consequence. Out here, just like normal life, you probably make about ten thousand little decisions a day.  However, in normal life, sometimes a bad decision results in no real adverse or vastly delayed consequences.  Out here,…

Out here, you see NOBODY.  You can literally go weeks without seeing a single human being.  Just before I reached Silver City, as I stood pondering a particularly treacherous crossing, another OBVIOUSLY thru-hiker ran up to me, put his hand on my chest and said: “Dude, are you real?  Don’t shit me man, I haven’t…

Note: Click the ‘Where’s Wayne” tab to track Wayne live via GPS. Location:  Gila River Alternative, CDT.     So, one of the most famous and utilized of the alternative paths on the CDT is the Gila River Alternative. You follow the Gila through an incredibly narrow, soaring stone canyon for 105 miles. I waded…

Note: Click the ‘Where’s Wayne” tab to track Wayne live via GPS. Location: Silver City NM   Out here, GPS is life. It’s named the Continental Divide Trail, but that’s a lie. Unlike the AT or PCT, it’s about a million GPS waypoints that you follow. No real trail at all to speak of.  …

Note: Click the ‘Where’s Wayne’ tab to track Wayne live via GPS. So, after my utter and complete meltdown via Billy Joel and Twyla Davis, I decided to use one of my favorite philosophies: NEVER EVER WASTE A TERRIBLE DAY !!!. When a day sucks do all the things you hate because the day won’t…

Note: Click the ‘Where’s Wayne’ tab to track Wayne live via GPS. I maintain no faith… except when hiking. Gods get twitchy when you get them indoors. I was once asked to explain my belief system, so I produced a 23 page PowerPoint deck that prominently featured historically pagan deities and a few of the…

Note: Click the ‘Where’s Wayne’ tab to track Wayne live via GPS. After 4,000 plus hiking miles and over a year of sleeping bag nights, long-distance hiking still holds certain mysteries for me. Emotional hypersensitivity is one. Long-distance hikers, I can only speak for men here, become extremely emotionally vulnerable. When talking about a loved…

Lordsburg NM, May 5, 2024 When you stumble into a town after a week alone in the desert, looking like someone took Santa, completely dehydrated him and then fried him extra crispy; any thru-hiker wants the same things.  First a shower.  When you hit the motel, you undress in the shower, leaving your clothes in…