My overly ambitious and rose-tinted glasses goals for my trek include the following:

• Daily time-lapse sequences for sunrise and sunset (weather-permitting), immediately processed by my Arsenal 2 Pro, to be released when I have internet via YouTube

• At least two photos from each mile of trail, preferably both a grand and intimate landscape

• One daily photo of an animal and interesting plant

• At least one selfie each day, which flies in total disregard of my loathing of selfies, these may never be shared

• Create a Relive video for each day on trail (with most if not all of the above images and/or movies)

• Log each day in my “trail journal”

  • Rate each day for the following categories: weather, difficulty, physical energy, scenery, and mental state

  • Document the high and low point of each day

  • Collate all of the day’s stats: miles, elevation, temperature, weather, etc.

  • Observations and names of the day (lakes, mountains, passes, trail junctions, people, trail lingo)

  • Anything I want to report to trail volunteers

  • Infotainment of the day: what I’m reading and listening to.

• I’m super excited to share that I was selected as a trail correspondent by Thru-R, which means they’ll be sharing my Instagram posts. I’m going to attempt to keep a full queue scheduled (so posts will go out a few times a day).

This is overly ambitious and probably completely unrealistic. But it’s good to have stretch goals.

Inspiration

Part of my motivation comes from the following post I stumbled across by Austin Kleon regarding logbooks, but especially the following quote from the Wikipedia entry for “logbook”:

A logbook was originally a book for recording readings from the log, and is used to determine the distance a ship traveled within a certain amount of time. The readings of the log have been recorded in equal times to give the distance traveled with respect to a given start position.

One of the comments on Austin’s post quoted Umberto Eco:

The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries.

How to Follow Me

I have several places that I’ll be attempting to post throughout the trek.

• For some inexplicable reason, I have three Instagram handles: @saunterthrulife, @saunterthru, @liz.livermont (my focus will likely be the first handle)

• This blog will get the daily logbook uploaded when I am in town (I’ll be scheduling them to post once a day). You can sign-up to get email updates each time a post is added.

• I’ll upload the Relive video and time-lapse sequences to YouTube as service allows: Saunter Thru Life If you subscribe, you’ll get updates when new videos available.

• You can also follow my track points (via Garmin) in near real-time. This requires a password. Please contact me directly if you are interested.

• Lastly, I will be posting links to each video and blog post on my Patreon page. As a supporter, you will receive an email for each new link.

One More Thing

I am essentially going on a glorified vacation, that involves thousands of miles of walking. If you want to support me, I’d ask you to make a donation to the Inyo County Search and Rescue team.