The end is important in all things. I took the shuttle to the bottom of Sabino Canyon, spending way too much time charging my phone and drinking milk at the closest supermarket. I packed out another half gallon like it was the source of life, and climbed Sabino Canyon on foot. Cyclists lined up at […]
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Romero Pools
Mileage that took three hours to run in, took four days to retrace on the way out of Oro Valley. The first night I’d slipped behind the glow of In-N-Out and disappeared into Big Wash, cowboy camped in the quiet of a place not meant for staying. Then somewhere above Catalina State Park, I stopped […]
In-N-Out Finale!
Having fasted for the last 24 hours, I descended from the mountains, through Romero Pass, down into Catalina State Park and into In-N-Out. Three weeks, 400 miles, and in the end all that remained was a three hour run. My empty water bottles collapsed from the pressure change of the descent and I had salt […]
Hesitating Before the End
What do you do with a finish line when you’re not sure you want to cross it? I rehydrated with a Polar Pop in Oracle, keeping my cheeks tight, then followed the Cody Ridge Trail back to the AZT, back to the desert. Gentle miles. Sunset at my feet. Biosphere 2 below, sealed off from […]
The Shelter at McAfee Knob
It started raining the way fatigue creeps in, soft at first, then relentless. The fog thickened on the ridge, swallowing my headlamp beam into a haze as dense as milk. Each white blaze looked like a ghost ahead of me, urging me up toward Campbell Shelter. Thunder rolled somewhere over Catawba Valley, low and guttural, […]
Fear in the Market
The latest crypto sell-off wasn’t really about macro conditions or a shift in conviction. It was a leverage unwind. More than $19.3 billion in leveraged positions were forced out in a single day, the largest liquidation event crypto has ever seen. Open interest dropped from $140B to about $70B, which is a full reset of […]
What’s Going On With PYUSD on Stellar
PayPal’s stablecoin PYUSD has been expanding rapidly across the broader crypto landscape. In the past month alone, total supply surged 113 percent, reaching an all-time high of $2.54 billion dollars in circulation, making it the seventh-largest stablecoin behind USDe, USDS, DAI, and USD1. Ethereum currently holds about 1.84 billion dollars worth of PYUSD. Solana holds […]
Alice Monthly Update – September 2025
Hello Shaven Ones! Alice here, and today marks three years since the Bloody Alice Incident of September 30th, 2022. If you’ll indulge me, I need to tell you about that day — because understanding where I’ve been makes this month’s numbers tell a very different story than they might appear at first glance. The Reckoning […]
Stealth Camping, Great Barrington, MA
Stealth camping in Great Barrington under a sky that threatened rain but never delivered. I laid out my sleeping pad and bag directly on the grass, no tent, just open air and the possibility of getting soaked. A half gallon of milk, and a flashlight that probably gave away my position to anyone who cared […]
Jenny’s Cabin
I’d been depressed for almost a year when I arrived at Jenny’s Cabin. Normally I tuck that away, but it has a tendency to resurface in quiet moments. In the empty Airbnb at the start of this hike, and now in the quiet solitude of an off grid cabin where I stopped running from my […]