goin’ hiking! (again)

It was not exactly intentional to have the two hiking trips of the year be back to back weeks. I can’t say it wasn’t intentional at all, because I did check a calendar before agreeing to the second one, so it’s not like I didn’t know. But it wasn’t a situation where I sat down and said to myself, ‘hey, you know what would be great? back to back hiking trips!’

The awesome thing about it is that it made packing for the second trip super easy. Unloaded my stuff from the first trip, washed a bunch of it, re-loaded it into a slightly larger backpack — done!

It has also created back-to-back two-day work weeks, which are — not that productive, honestly. One person can get a lot done in two days, absolutely, but my job now is a lot of patiently (ha!) waiting to coordinate with other teams, which means a lot of finagling schedules until you can get a few key people who all have fifteen minutes free at the same time. (Or just politely freak out in the hallway and draw a crowd, which has been a surprisingly successful strategy thus far.)

But that is a problem for future me! Today is the day to make sure I remember to bring my hiking boots (again!) and pack plenty of snacks (plus some extra snacks, just in case), and get back on the trail!

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