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Acidreamer
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voodoochild1000 said: ..u tripped Zion?....so fucking great!...tried to get there last month. ...but shit got in the way!.....Tripping Wilderness is the best!
Yeah man and it was awesome! Try and get out there if you can, it's a magical place. I tripped at Glacier National Park a few months ago too which was wild. Tripping in the wilderness really is the best, so true
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voodoochild1000
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Re: Walking 2,650 Miles on Psychedelics [Re: Acidreamer]
#22480275 - 11/05/15 09:18 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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voodoochild1000 said: ..u tripped Zion?....so fucking great!...tried to get there last month. ...but shit got in the way!.....Tripping Wilderness is the best!
Yeah man and it was awesome! Try and get out there if you can, it's a magical place. I tripped at Glacier National Park a few months ago too which was wild. Tripping in the wilderness really is the best, so true
...will be going to Glacier-Jasper-Kootenay next summer!....went to Yellowstone and Teton last year! ....saw 5 Grizzly bears...wolves ect.........awesome!....and I'm from OR!....
-------------------- ....."So Great!"....-Me on 1.5mg LSD ...."We don't need this" -Larkin in response to my "just picked wild LSD!" post
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Acidreamer
altered ego



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voodoochild1000 said: ..u tripped Zion?....so fucking great!...tried to get there last month. ...but shit got in the way!.....Tripping Wilderness is the best!
Yeah man and it was awesome! Try and get out there if you can, it's a magical place. I tripped at Glacier National Park a few months ago too which was wild. Tripping in the wilderness really is the best, so true
...will be going to Glacier-Jasper-Kootenay next summer!....went to Yellowstone and Teton last year! ....saw 5 Grizzly bears...wolves ect.........awesome!....and I'm from OR!....
Whhoooooaaa, that's so awesome!! I only saw black bears, no grizzly, but that's fine with me Sounds like you're gonna have a blast next summer
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TheScientificMethod
Psychonautic Explorer & Writer



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Re: Walking 2,650 Miles on Psychedelics [Re: Acidreamer]
#22480859 - 11/05/15 11:57 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thanks for the feedback all! I honestly wasn't sure if anyone would actually read this since it's so long, but y'all have really boosted my spirits as I've started writing what I hope will become the book itself.
As for the conversation about tripping in nature... yeah. It is pretty much the best, hence why I went on this journey in the first place. With a little bit of luck I'll be eating some mushrooms at Grand Canyon National Park tomorrow morning . It should serve as a nice reminder of what I got out of my trips out on the PCT. Then in the afternoon I have a "date" with someone who's never tripped DMT before. We set tomorrow as the day where he'd first enter that realm. Got the GVG all nice and clean with new screens, so tomorrow should be a hell of a day :::)
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voodoochild1000
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TheScientificMethod said: Thanks for the feedback all! I honestly wasn't sure if anyone would actually read this since it's so long, but y'all have really boosted my spirits as I've started writing what I hope will become the book itself.
As for the conversation about tripping in nature... yeah. It is pretty much the best, hence why I went on this journey in the first place. With a little bit of luck I'll be eating some mushrooms at Grand Canyon National Park tomorrow morning . It should serve as a nice reminder of what I got out of my trips out on the PCT. Then in the afternoon I have a "date" with someone who's never tripped DMT before. We set tomorrow as the day where he'd first enter that realm. Got the GVG all nice and clean with new screens, so tomorrow should be a hell of a day :::)
...U r truly living the LIFESTYLE...freedom..nature..love..strength and health..intellect...the psychedelic experience itself!
....The bestest of wishes Brother!
-------------------- ....."So Great!"....-Me on 1.5mg LSD ...."We don't need this" -Larkin in response to my "just picked wild LSD!" post
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Nature Boy
Stranger than most



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Zion for the win! Love hiking that place. Gonna have to look into Goblin Valley if you recommend it...
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Simple-Psyman



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Re: Walking 2,650 Miles on Psychedelics [Re: Nature Boy]
#22484532 - 11/06/15 06:03 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Nice!!! I'll be back to read more
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Shortknight



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Re: Walking 2,650 Miles on Psychedelics [Re: Simple-Psyman]
#22484707 - 11/06/15 07:26 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Took me 3 days to read all that, and it was great Made me feel all groovy again you know haha and thanks for that! Sounded like alot of fun, a lot of insight.... One hell of a ride! I got some ideas id like to share with you about your book, suggestions, but il do that later
Dare I ask... What now? How has this trip integrated into your current lifestyle, is it a new style? Have you fallen back, leapt forward? Hehe, I don't mean to peek and prowd at you too deeply and don't answer or feel minded if you don't feel to! You really are a pioneer on the front of something. Searching and going where few of us could or would go. The experiences you share are truly unique so I want to raise a toast to that
I hope all is well, and I don't think il be done with this thread anytime soon Lots more learning, growing and embracing will be going on.
Rock on! Shorty
-------------------- Did I say it too loud? Big heart? Or a little misleading!
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TheScientificMethod
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Re: Walking 2,650 Miles on Psychedelics [Re: Shortknight]
#22489702 - 11/07/15 09:06 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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ShortKnight, thank you so much for taking the time to read through it all! I really appreciate the feedback and shit... just the fact that you found my writing to be worth your time is really motivating as I continue work towards producing a book out of all of this.
The questions you ask are absolutely valid. I've struggled a lot with asking myself where the story begins and, more to the point, where it ends. It certainly doesn't end when I get to Canada because I absolutely have found the experience on the trail to be impacting my life off the trail, so it's hard to say where I'll write "the end." Shit... maybe the end of the story hasn't even happened yet.
To answer your question however, life after the trail has been all over the place. I dealt with really severe depression in the one month after completing the PCT (a lot of people deal with post trail depression and many people have written about it extensively). I even had the misfortune of losing someone who I hiked with for part of the PCT. I didn't write about him in this document, but he will be in the book itself. We spent fewer than four or five days together, but after he left the trail he killed himself... still sort of hard for me to even accept. He was a really good dude.
I dealt with severe depression and suicidal ideation after the trail unfortunately. That lasted very heavy for about a month, and even still I deal with it a bit, likely as a reflection of the fact that I've dealt with depression to differing degrees my entire life. It's been getting better, but unfortunately it's still there.
After being on trail for 4 months and then not working for a month, I have had to come back to "reality" and get a lot of jobs to get back on my feet. I am now working three different jobs and only have one day off per week. So unfortunately I cannot get out and camp like I wish that I could. An ideal situation would be for me to have two days off per week back-to-back so that I can hit the trail and camp, but right now I need to prioritize making money so that I can hopefully go out and hike the PCT again in 2016 or 2017. There's a chance that I'd just hike the CDT instead, but a big part of me wants to go out and hike the PCT once more and take about twice as long to do it; really take my time and enjoy the scenery a bit more. But in order to do that I'm going to need a bit of money, and for the time being I'm stuck in the work cycle. That's sort of ironic because a lot of what I learned out on the trail is how non-important "work" is compared to spending time in nature, but I realize that I have to work in order to afford time in nature. Hopefully I find a happy medium somewhere in there within a month or two.
On the few days that I have had off within the last month I've tried to make the most of them. I've been to Grand Canyon National Park to hike three times since finishing the PCT and twice (including yesterday) I brought mushrooms with me. It's never easy for me to do that (anxiety, fear, hesitation), but when I only get one day to play every week or two, it makes me feel like I HAVE to go hard and really make the most of it. Yesterday is a good example; it was my first day in really about 4 weeks because I've been working so much, then I was sick on my last day off from work. So yesterday I went to Grand Canyon National Park and ate 1.5 grams at the rim then hiked all the way down to the Colorado River. It was a really positive experience (as it always is). That took me most of the day and I was just finished tripping by the time I made it back to my car at around 4. Then when I got back home I went to a sound meditation ceremony that takes place near where I live every Friday. Basically sit on the floor in darkness for an hour and have people play singing-bowls and stuff for an hour. It's a really amazing experience and I'm always pissed when I have to miss those ceremonies because of work. I brought a first-timer there with me because he wanted to trip DMT for the first time. So we went to the sound healing/meditation for an hour, then back to his place and blasted DMT. It was a really amazing day: Mushrooms, Grand Canyon, Sound meditation, then DMT. I don't get a lot of days off, but when I do, I make the most of them.
So yeah. Life after the trail certainly isn't as "easy" as I would have hoped for it to be, but I am finding meaning in it, and I really do believe that there is somthing off in my future that will make all the effort worth while. A big part of me believes that once I get this book written that it might be the payoff that I'm hoping for. I don't want to count chickens before they hatch, but I've had so many people who have said "shit man, I'd buy that book" that it really gives me a lot of hope. I don't spend nearly as much time writing as I'd like to be (due largely to how much time I'm having to spend working), but I am plugging away at it one day at a time and the support that I've gotten from the Shroomery has been really outstanding.
So thank you all again--all of you who have taken the time to read through my post and comment. It's been really motivating and really does keep me moving towards a finished product no matter how far off in the future that may be.
Scientific_Method.
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west coast hunt
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I have a lot of respect for simply walking the PCT. Walking it tripping all the time is unbelievable. Wow
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TheScientificMethod
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So while I was on the PCT I found a lot of mushrooms. Most of them were in the northwest (Oregon and Washington), but I did find a few in northern California. Anyways, here are some pictures of the mushrooms I wandered past during my hike. Feel free to identify if anyone cares to do so. I doubt that any of them are actives, but they're all still beautiful.

































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Ezuma
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I will have to read this whole thing later when I have time but so far man this is a great series of posts and I could totally see it making a great book keep at it
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Tboulanger12
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Re: Walking 2,650 Miles on Psychedelics [Re: Ezuma]
#22503151 - 11/10/15 12:04 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Starting to read this, looks interesting, I'll let you know when I'm done what I think of it I can't wait to get going
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voodoochild1000
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Re: Walking 2,650 Miles on Psychedelics [Re: Tboulanger12]
#22503845 - 11/10/15 07:34 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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....love the thumb ring!
-------------------- ....."So Great!"....-Me on 1.5mg LSD ...."We don't need this" -Larkin in response to my "just picked wild LSD!" post
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Thayendanegea
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Registered: 02/20/12
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Very courageous decision to undertake such an adventure. You can rest assured that you will never regret it.
One of my (yet unfulfilled) dreams is to hike the AT From Georgia to Maine. Time is ticking, however and age is becoming a factor.
Your story is inspiring.
-------------------- Look Deep Into Nature,and Then You Will Understand Everything Better. Albert Einstein
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TheScientificMethod
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Re: Walking 2,650 Miles on Psychedelics [Re: Thayendanegea]
#22505312 - 11/10/15 02:15 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thayendanegea said:
One of my (yet unfulfilled) dreams is to hike the AT From Georgia to Maine. Time is ticking, however and age is becoming a factor.
Time may be ticking, but you're only as old as you feel. I met one dude on the PCT who was in his mid 70's and he still made it the whole way to Canada. It may have taken him a bit longer to hike the trail than some other people, but he still made it. That gives me a lot of hope really. i'm hoping to hike it again in 2016 or 2017 and I get impatient thinking about how far away that is, but in reality it's just tomorrow and I've still got a lot of hiking years ahead of me.
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Thayendanegea
quiet walker



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Thanks Science, I'm in my mid fifties have had a hip replacement(due mostly to distance running in younger years) and now have RA to the point where my feet hurt miserably on even short day hikes. I also have a business that requires a shit ton of my time. Unfortunately, my window is closing, but I keep it open about an inch ....for fresh air and fresh ideas. Thanks
-------------------- Look Deep Into Nature,and Then You Will Understand Everything Better. Albert Einstein
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TheScientificMethod
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Re: Walking 2,650 Miles on Psychedelics [Re: Thayendanegea]
#22765874 - 01/11/16 12:40 PM (8 years, 20 days ago) |
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Update:
I've been working a lot, getting out and hiking when I can, tripping very little, and writing like a madman for the last few months. I have officially finished my first draft of what I hope to become a book one day.
The draft is 250 pages long. I talked *a little bit* about psychedelics, but mostly it felt intrusive to write about *drugs* in this thing that I'm trying to make into a serious book. Whenever I bridge the topic it feels like it's just turning in an unexpected and unfit direction. As such, I didn't talk much about drugs in this first draft. I wrote about them when they came up naturally, but I probably skipped 75% of the "trip reporting."
I'm not happy with that result though. So what I'm going to do now is literally start over and write a draft that is *totally* about the psychedelic approach to the trail. I'm hopeful that after that I can figure out a middle ground and write a more finalized draft from there. That said, there is a part of me at this time that is leaning towards just making it a book about psychedelics while still talking about my hike of the trail and just publishing it under a pseudonym.
Anyways. That's just the update on my seemingly never-ending psychedelic adventure.
Happy new year you all.
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Thayendanegea
quiet walker



Registered: 02/20/12
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Great to hear from you!!! Happy New Year Back at ya!
-------------------- Look Deep Into Nature,and Then You Will Understand Everything Better. Albert Einstein
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alteredmindstates
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Re: Walking 2,650 Miles on Psychedelics [Re: Thayendanegea]
#22768637 - 01/12/16 02:21 AM (8 years, 19 days ago) |
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Read it all in one sitting...believe it or not it's reshaped how I view myself as a musician and an artist and I'm finding meaning in my own journey 
Would buy many copies if you were to write a book.
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