1pm on Monday, August 17th, 2020 – Marblemount Ranger Station Ranger: What campsite should the permit include for tonight? Me: Can we do Cat Island? Ranger: Are you sure? That is like a 20 mile paddle in and its already 1pm? Me: I was actually going to run up Ruby Mountain before even getting on the water. It’s probably going to be a late night. Ranger: (With a confused look on his face) If you say so. How about the second night? Me: Hozomeen Camp Ranger: Hozomeen? I’m not sure that is even open this year. Let me check.. <5 minutes later> Ranger: Ok, you’re allowed to go there. The bathrooms are supposedly open, but since the Canadian border is closed, so there is no road in and no one else is up there. How about the third night? Me: Tapto lakes Ranger: How are you going to get all
Every October, some Google employees host a walking competition for other employees called Walktober. The idea is to set a walking goal and see if you can hit it. It predates me by a decade or more and as of 2020, over twenty thousand Googlers participate. It is so popular, in fact that some of us joke that our CEO, Sundar, initiated the acquisition of Fitbit last October to try and get a leg up on other walkers in this competition. For most of the 20k Googlers that participate, it is a chance to try and get 10k or 20k steps per day. To achieve that goal that your fitbit or Apple Watch is always telling you to strive for. At some point, someone made a leaderboard though, so inevitably there are a handful of people that walk 10, 20 or 30 miles per day on average, logging 2 Million+