by Dawn Chandler | Oct 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
As I look out my window just now, I see nothing but a dark tangle of black lines, crisscrossing and knotting up with each other, their shapes carved out by the softest shade of morning, of first light. First this light was pale grey. Now at the base where earth turns...
by Dawn Chandler | Apr 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
We had been camped on the far edge of the high south meadow. The evening before we were lead up a west slope trail, where, just beyond the ridge in the blaze of sun sinking quickly before us, we stood at a fence line, and watched color radiate from a point just beyond...
by Dawn Chandler | Oct 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
Has it really been a month since I hiked off the trail? ‘Seems impossible that one month ago today I was lying in a tent on a frosty morning deep in the northern Vermont woods 5 miles from Canada…. As I said, my thoughts these past...
by Dawn Chandler | Oct 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Last year when I came crippled off my backpacking journey, I left the trail two weeks earlier than planned. The frugal thing to do would have been to change my travel plans and return promptly home to New Mexico. Fourteen days earlier and just five days into my Long...
by Dawn Chandler | Oct 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
I love Vermont and I miss it. Though not a physical resident, in the last couple of years I’ve become a resident of the soul of Vermont. I’ve so much more to reflect on and share about my long walk through the Green Mountain forests. But I am a physical and...
