I got home to Western North Carolina on September 19, 2024. On September 27, Hurricane Helene deposited between 25 and 30 inches of rain on an already sodden region.
Category: Deerlodge
I felt bad for Brother Paul. On the recommendation of a mutual friend, he agreed to spend some time with me, but he did not bargain for the this. I was kind of a wreck and there was no way we could talk about anything else until I tried to explain to him why.
Somewhere around Casper, I thought I might go insane. I pulled off the road and into the first campground I could find. They warned me about raccoons (I did not tell them I had been camping with bears). The warm wind dried out all of my wet gear in a short amount of time, and I wondered how much electricity these people saved by not using their clothes dryers all that much.
Basically, if you are an Episcopalian who claims to have visited the Tetons but you don’t have a picture of the Chapel of the Transfiguration, then either you did not really visit the Tetons or you are not an actual Episcopalian. Those are the rules.