Sora Takamori
Sora Takamori weighs the wrapper, crumbs, and remaining food before eating, a habit readers recognize from shelter floors and picnic tables. After retiring from counting feed portions for nocturnal animals, Sora gave his spare hours to shaving grams from every trip and finding out which reductions survive contact with weather.
Articles by Sora Takamori
Hiker Discovers New Trail Only to Learn It's Just a Deer Path to Nowhere
The 'previously unmapped route' turned out to be a three-mile deer commute ending at a pond where the deer presumably drink water and judge hikers.
Ultralight Hiker Replaces Tent With Positive Thinking
The thru-hiker shaved 2.3 pounds from his base weight by eliminating shelter entirely and 'just believing really hard that it won't rain.'
PCT Hiker Discovers $300 Rain Jacket Is Not, Technically, Waterproof
The 'water-resistant' fine print, buried in paragraph nine of the product description, has prompted the hiker to describe Gore-Tex as 'a faith-based technology.'