Rancid Dogs
The smell permeated the woods, every breath becoming an exploration into a world of flavor. Each breath inhaling particles that once...
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ElevenSkys
- Dec 4, 2021
- 5 min
Those Before...
The physical steps in the sand may have been washed away, but the steps of those before will forever remain imprinted on the very fabric...
ElevenSkys
- Nov 30, 2021
- 4 min
Rivers of Thought
Draft to draft we float on a tendril of thought that cannot be contained. A wisp of air that snakes its way through our brain, focusing...
ElevenSkys
- Nov 27, 2021
- 6 min
"Regularly Scheduled Programming"
Writing this transition is as difficult (if not more so) than the transition we are currently going through. The transition back to...
ElevenSkys
- Nov 7, 2021
- 4 min
Looking For a Legend
Well, it certainly has been quite the year. ElevenSkys hikers, Constantine and Magpie, finished their NCT (North Country Trail) thru-hike...
ElevenSkys
- Apr 28, 2021
- 8 min
ElevenSkys Products Release!
The knees have been feeling the cold bite of the wind for too long now. The harsh sting of the sun as it crisps and crackles like bacon...
ElevenSkys
- Apr 26, 2021
- 11 min
The North Country Trail
A beast with no premeditation nor malevolence in its nature, only indifference to the hiker that decides to take a peek into its open maw...
ElevenSkys
- Apr 25, 2021
- 10 min
The "In-Between"
This is where the magic happens, not at the end, not at the beginning. The "in-between" is where life is lived.
ElevenSkys
- Jan 30, 2021
- 8 min
Tomorrow
This tomorrow that we now can see has been the puppet master to our play. The director to our movie. The conductor to our orchestra.
ElevenSkys
- Jan 27, 2021
- 6 min
Beginning
Every trail starts new. You stand at the terminus looking northbound, southbound, eastbound, westbound, any direction that begins...
ElevenSkys
- Jan 25, 2021
- 7 min
Thousands of Spiders
"An imprint shaped in the form of 8 legs, terrifying pincers, and eyes that we see every time we close our own..."
ElevenSkys
- Jan 23, 2021
- 6 min
Countdown Clock
A blank page, a blank page with a clock. A clock that ticks seconds, minutes, hours and days. Within that blank page there is everything.
ElevenSkys
- Jan 20, 2021
- 6 min
Caffeine & You
Trenti iced coffee, 12 pumps [sugar-free] vanilla, 12 pumps [sugar-free] hazelnut, 12 pumps [sugar-free] caramel, 5 pumps skinny mocha...
ElevenSkys
- Jan 18, 2021
- 7 min
Hiker Think
A singular thought that appears to be the same no matter the uniquely weird and different hiker. We call it Hiker Think.
ElevenSkys
- Jan 16, 2021
- 9 min
On-Trail Time Management
Time does not discriminate. You do not have a choice to move through this path because it is a universal law that time must continue. Yet..
ElevenSkys
- Jan 13, 2021
- 8 min
Time Management Off-Trail
Time is the most important commodity, a currency that can never be replaced, a unit of measurement that everything else is measured against.
ElevenSkys
- Jan 11, 2021
- 7 min
10 Pairs of Shoes
We wake up in a cold sweat, it is 3 a.m. again and we hear the ominous sound around us reverberating through the thickness of the night..
ElevenSkys
- Jan 9, 2021
- 8 min
Universal Hiker Standard
We have licked the inside of a cheese packet for any sliver left of the powdered cheese-by product that tastes as if we were licking Olympus
ElevenSkys
- Jan 6, 2021
- 6 min
Tell Your Trail
Are we sponsored? Preposterous! We are not sponsored, but we are partnered to share our journey together with Tell Your Trail and you!
ElevenSkys
- Jan 4, 2021
- 7 min
Posthole Party!
Is that the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? Maybe....