Aer Parris

Rainbow Dash caught us last night! It was after we collapsed at the water source, ate our food, and were driven out of our…

The world was dewy and dappled as we woke this morning, tucked away in the warmth of our sleeping bags. I stretched awake at…

The morning sun rose to find us perched on the side of a mountain, me on top of Ant, ever clutching at my mat…

I know that life is a rollercoaster — one minute I am flying high and the next there is a seemingly bottomless low. I…

Oh happy day! Ant has rejoined Team Cycked! on the road to happy destiny. Rainbow Dash was also added, an honorary member of our…

The PCT is a strange and wonderful place, but for the past 10 days I have been somewhere else having quite a different kind…

I don’t know how it happens, but we thru hikers have an incredible ability to spread news. I know who is ahead and who…

May Rose, from our Bike & Build trip, is the most positive, charming person I know. She sang a song often: “I’m alive, awake,…

I’ve been hiking for three weeks now, and nothing is as it seems. I thought the trip would be gruesomely hard and my feet…

I feel like a broken record at this point, but the Pacific Crest Trail is weird. It constantly does the opposite of what you…

The mountains turned into fresh burn turned into desert turned into pine forest again today. It, building off the mood of yesterday, was enchanting….

I woke up to the twinkling of the early morning sunshine through wrinkles in the curtains. I peeked out at the day, careful not…