white blaze blue blaze yellow blaze

pink blaze…

AQUA BLAZE!

So instead of hiking throght the Shenandoahs, I decided to canoe along the river instead. I had heard that the trail crosses over the road every other mile and that a lot of people just walk along the Skyline Drive, which used to be the old trail but I guess they decided to pave it instead.

We canoed for almost 100 miles along the river. Yes, that is a camo flag with a deer skull. Rocking mascot.

Canoeing was a refreshing change of pace. Its a lot more sensual than hiking, the way the boat glides over the water, the sound of the paddle dipping in and out of the river and the movement of your body to pull you along. I really enjoyed it and would love to make plans to canoe and camp in the future.

The first night was a little scary. We took a break towards dusk and I went swimming with another hiker named Yeti. We were swimming for a while and it got dark and we ended up in a faster moving part of the river. I stood in the middle with him and all of a sudden lost my balance and got swept down stream. Yeti kept yelling at me to put my feet down, but I couldn’t, I was moving too fast. I was really scared about hitting my head on a rock or something, so I grabbed at a branch of a tree that was sticking out over the water. As I was holding on, the water was rushing by so fast it pulled one of my crocks off, then the other and finally my shorts. There I was, shoeless and pantless, holding onto this branch for dear life and while the water was rushing really hard against my pussy I actually wondered for about two seconds if I would be able to get off. But then I got a hold of myself and grabbed onto a closer branch and finally pulled myself onto shore.

The views on the river were beautiful. I saw one of the prettiest sunsets over the mountain and right when everything already seemed absolutely perfect, this bald eagle swoops out from a rock face and flies into the sunset.

Blaze is a term of travel on the AT after the “white blazes” they paint on the trees and rocks to mark the trail. Blue blazing is when you take short cut trails instead of sticking to the AT, yellow blazing is when you drive or hitch up the AT, and pink blazing is when you’re chasing tail on the trail. There’s also brown blazing but I don’t think you need a definition for that.

Lanthir, a super cool lady, met up with me for the aqua blaze and it was awesome! She’s also on I Shot Myself.

By shooting myself I am doing my part to take back the feminist movement from the exclusionist sex-hating, porn-hating feminazis. To demolish the ridiculous notion that all erotic imagery is inherently exploitative. To prove that you don’t have to fit the stereotype of what a woman “ought” to look like to be beautiful, or sexy. To show that scars don’t have to be a source of shame. Nudity can be casual, and fun and beautiful! Our bodies shouldn’t be something we should have to hide. I’m a nudist. I’m a 5.5 or so on the Kinsey Scale. I’m gender-queer. I’m otherkin. I am not what society tells me to be, and I am not hiding.
- Lanthir’s Artist Statement on IShotMyself

We have tentative plans to make some pretty photos on the trail, I’m excited!

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