A Decade of Section Hiking Long Trails:
A Decade of Lessons Learned:
- Backpacking Gear List
- Bug Management
- Campsite Selection
- Eats, Drinks and More
- Electronics and Technology
- Navigation and Planning
- Preparing for the Unexpected
- Solo, Partner or Group
- Water, Water, Water
- Gear Maintenance (2023)
Hiking Skills and Safety:
- Autumn Signals Hiking and Backpacking Gear Changes (2023)
- Dear Friends & Family, If I become a Missing Person . . .
- Finding the Courage to Solo Backpack (article for Gossamer Gear)
- Food, It’s a Balancing Act
- Gear List from the Arizona Trail
- Hiking with Geospatial PDF Maps (Avenza)
- How Much Should My Pack Weigh? (2023)
- Is this Trail or Trip for Me?
- Learning to be a Long-Distance Hiker
- Let’s Talk Poo
- Life Interrupted . . . Forever Grateful for the SOS Button
- Meal Prep (budget, time and health friendly)
- Partnership Commitments, Compatibilities & Compromises
- Preparing your Resupply Boxes
- Safety First . . . says the Old Lady with a Tiny Pack (and a dog bite)
- Social Media and Personal Safety
- Snow Travel Skills
Miscellaneous:
- Dear Community, THANK YOU and Happy New Year! (2023/24)
- Post-Travel Realities (2023)
- Slow Travel, What’s It All About? (2023)
- Preserving Memories, A Labor of Love (2023)
- ALDHA-West Gathering 2017
- My Field of Dreams (finding my tribe) (article for Gossamer Gear)
- Getting my Trail Angel Wings (article for Gossamer Gear)
- The Liebster Award
- Thanksgiving . . . a day for giving thanks
Motivational:
- What are YOU waiting for? (are you a stewer or doer?)
- What’s stopping YOU from living YOUR BEST Life? (are you a worry wort?)
- The Abundant R’s of Winter
- The Season of Temptation for hikers, backpackers, adventurers and the rest of the world (holiday deals)
- Finding Consistency (gaining and maintaining fitness)
- From Workaholic to Playaholic (podcast and more)
- The Aging Hiker Series
Pandemic Thoughts:
- Life in Jan’s Jail . . . taking on the 14-Day travel quarantine challenge
- A Speck in the Storm
- I Just Want to Live Before I Die
- Don’t Tell Me NO!
- This Hiker’s Tug of War
- Blooming April, Spring Doesn’t Care
Practical Ponderings:
- Partnership Commitments, Compatibilities & Compromises
- Let’s Talk Poo
- Preparing your Resupply Boxes
- Food, It’s a Balancing Act
- Meal Prep (budget, time and health friendly)
- Gear List from the Arizona Trail
Public Lands:
Travel Summaries:
- 2023 – Where did Jan Jaunt?
- 2023 – My 7-Month Jaunt (AZ/ID/MT/WA/WY and AB/BC Canada)
- 2022 – Where did Jan Jaunt?
- 2022 – My 170-Day Jaunt
- 2021 – Where Did Jan Jaunt?
- 2020 – Where Did Jan Jaunt?
- 2020 – A Summer of Surprises
- 2019 – Where Did Jan Jaunt?
- 2019 – Spring Jaunt
- 2018 – Where Did Jan Jaunt?
- 2017 – Where Did Jan Jaunt?
- 2017 – Summer/Fall Jaunt
- 2017 – Spring Jaunt
- 2016 – Where Did Jan Jaunt?
- 2016 – Spring Jaunt
- 2015 – Where Did Jan Jaunt?
Jan's Jaunts and Jabberings 
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hi jan
good hearing from from you again .i started to wonder… 🙂
quick question.i “blew” out my calf muscle a couple of weeks ago.
do you have any “secret”remedy’s for fixing it.:-)
it has been keeping me from hiking and i hate that!! 🙂
thanks so much
Manfred (grants pass.or)
P.S. looking forward to hear/read about your latest adventures 🙂
I laughed because I almost started the post with . . . When you haven’t heard from Jan it could be because (a) she’s not jaunting because she’s injured (b) she’s jaunting and is too busy to blog (c) she’s dead. So glad the answer was b and not c especially with all the MIA, SAR and dead adventurers of late.
Thankfully I haven’t had an issue with my calf muscle, but recently one of my friends had to push the dreaded SOS button while in the Grand Canyon when a tendon snapped in her calf. My first course of action is usually hot epsom salt baths, ibuprofen, elevation, and rest. But yours sounds more serious so it might need medical intervention or at least internet research. I was off for 3 months in the fall with broken ribs. Injuries are such a disruption. Best of luck healing.
Great hearing from you.