“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
Photo of Lake Helen, location of this story. (For the first two parts of this story about a night on a solo backpack trip in the Bighorn Range, check out the previous two posts on the Adventure Blog.) Elks. Coyotes. Mystery grunting whiners making laps around my tent. Noisy grass-eaters. And now, rain. What next? …
Apparently, I miscalculated the amount of liquids I needed to drink while hiking six miles at 10,000 feet in elevation. I had forgotten just how much liquid I would expirate while gasping and wheezing uphill at that elevation, I suspect. This miscalculation would come back to haunt me in the middle of night. It would …
One Pursuit 