Gail D. Storey's Blog, page 7
March 21, 2015
Continental Divide Trail #2: Getting Ready!
Porter and Gail Storey prepare for their Continental Divide Trail adventure, from food preparation (including lots of chocolate) to getting every aspect of their lives in order.
March 13, 2015
Continental Divide Trail #1: Porter Retires to Hike the CDT!
Porter Storey retires after 30 years as a leader in hospice and palliative medicine, to hike the 3,100-mile Continental Divide Trail over the mountains of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. His wife, Gail, is his "trail angel" support, moving from town to town near the CDT on a solo meditation retreat.
January 19, 2015
Meditation Freedom podcast, interview of Gail Storey
Gail D. Storey is interviewed about meditation and her book, I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail, by Sicco Rood on his podcast, Meditation Freedom.
December 14, 2014
The Making of a Thru-Hiker, Part 7: Gourmet Feasting on the Trail
My seventh post for “The Making of a Thru-Hiker” (in Women’s Adventure Magazine): Gourmet Feasting on the Trail I had my doubts about how well my husband, Porter, and I would eat on our hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, 2,663 miles from the border of Mexico to Canada. “I’m a gourmet cook in the […]
November 29, 2014
The Making of a Thru-Hiker, Part 6: Who’s Out There Besides You?
My sixth post for “The Making of a Thru-Hiker” column (in Women’s Adventure Magazine): Who’s Out There Besides You? For the first couple of days of our hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, Porter and I didn’t see another soul. But on the third day, we sat down in the middle of the desert for […]
November 15, 2014
The Making of a Thru-Hiker, Part 5: The Flood!
Don’t worry, written in 2013, this is my fifth post for “The Making of a Thru-Hiker” column (in Women’s Adventure Magazine): The Flood! In the middle of the night of September 11, 2013, floodwaters began to pour through our downstairs half-basement of five furnished rooms. A storm had stalled over the Front Range of the […]
November 1, 2014
The Making of a Thru-Hiker, Part 4: Water?!
My fourth post for “The Making of a Thru-Hiker” column (in Women’s Adventure Magazine): Water?! My friend Lise vowed to airlift in champagne to me while I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. “You can’t possibly go six months without champagne,” she said. “I won’t stand for it.” “I’ll just have to make do,” I said. […]
October 18, 2014
The Making of a Thru-hiker, Part 3: Should a Young Woman Thru-hike Solo?
My third post for “The Making of a Thru-Hiker” column (in Women’s Adventure Magazine): Should a Young Woman Thru-Hike Solo? This message from a reader threw me into a soul-searching tizzy: “What would you say to a twenty-year-old woman who wants to hike the entire Pacific Crest Trail but doesn’t have a partner to hike […]
October 4, 2014
The Making of a Thru-hiker, Part 2: How Not to Train
My second post for “The Making of a Thru-Hiker” column (in Women’s Adventure Magazine): Tips on how NOT to train for a long-distance hike! I thought I was dead. Supine in front of an altar, looking up at the vaulted ceiling, I felt like someone in a casket. My husband, Porter, stood over me. “Time […]
September 24, 2014
The Making of a Thru-Hiker, Part 1 (WAM)
Welcome to my column for Women’s Adventure Magazine! I’m shocked—shocked!—that I undertook a thru-hike of the 2,663-mile Pacific Crest Trail with my husband, Porter, not to mention lived to tell the tale. I look at the photos of our hike and ask myself, who is that woman and how did she get there? To read […]
