By Tim Patterson  |  Location: Canada  |  09/29/07  |  Pics: 2

I’m typing in my soggy little pup tent somewhere in the Chic Choc mountains of the Gaspe Peninsula.  It’s 8:01 pm and I’ve been in this tent since mid-afternoon, burrowed in my heavy down sleeping bag, watching the silhouettes of slugs ooze across the outer tent wall.   

I’m wearing...