Tag: Tahoe Rim Trial Hike

The incremental approach I use to tackling any new skill or endeavor is highly dependent on continuously taking small, incremental steps towards my desired outcome.  It doesn’t matter how small the step, so long as I just keeping moving in my intended direction.  Today, I continued my research.  On AllTrails, an online hiking platform and … Continue reading Hiking Rim Trail: Continued Research

Tonight, David asked about the Desolation National Wilderness.  I told him where it was in relationship to the lake. He pulled up pics, and one of them struck terror in my heart. Whereas yesterday’s little jaunt out into the woods soothed me, and knowing that I can conceal carry a handgun eased my mind, that … Continue reading Rim Trail Hike, Mental Acclimatization

So much of what I do involves poking around the edges of an idea, eating the proverbial elephant one bite at a time.  In order to get a sense of the training I’d have to do to prep to walk 7-10 miles/day for days on end, I laid out a tentative training schedule for the … Continue reading Rim Trail Hike, It’s All in the Details

I’ll try a lot of different things and am always looking for new tools to pick up in order to game success in my favor.  I have a Commit-Action accountability coach that I work with each week to hit targets leading to my goals.  For more information, go to https://www.commitaction.com/ With that coach, I do … Continue reading Rim Trail Hike, Visualization

On any new venture, you have to start where you start.  You have to start feeling your way through it, especially at the beginning, because you have no clue what you need to know.  So, you start looking for resources.  You start building the frame for all the interior pieces of the puzzle.  My first … Continue reading Rim Trail Hike, Resources

Next thing I did was to do a “How Would I Fail to hike the TRT solo” analysis.  I took this idea from the Stoics inversion process – it makes it super easy to figure out what you DO need to do after you’ve figured out what NOT to do, all the ways you could … Continue reading Rim Trail Hike, Stoic Inversion Process

Now that this epic hike was on my radar, I had to do some real serious thinking, conceptualizing the trip and the tasks needing to be done to be successful at its completion.  What is that old axiom – failing to plan is planning to fail.  No sense putting in a bunch of effort and … Continue reading Rim Trail Hike, Conceptualizing

… a 1.65 mile hike out to the switchback point that overlooks the Carson Valley.  You have to start somewhere, and small is always a good place to start building up to bigger and bigger things!  This afternoon David went with me as I took my first baby hike on a section of the Tahoe … Continue reading Rim Trail Hike, A Journey of 173 Miles Begins with…

This isn’t going to be popular, but… My first official baby-step towards realizing my goal of hiking the 173-mile Tahoe Rim Trial is to get David on the phone with the National Park Service to get the lowdown on Nevada’s and California’s gun carry requirements.  Spilled the controversial beans already… Now, I know that guns … Continue reading Rim Trail Hike, Lowering Barriers