An off-trail adventure through perhaps the prettiest chunk of the lower 48Outside's long reads email newsletter features our strongest writing, most ambitious reporting, and award-winning storytelling about the outdoors..This is the tenth year of my blog at Semi-Rad.com, and since I started it, I’ve been fortunate to get to do some pretty wonderful adventures. Throughout this year, I’ll be writing about 12 of my favorites, . This is the eighth in the series.In the predawn hours before the first day of our trip, I stared at the ceiling of the van above the mattress as I tried to get...…An off-trail adventure through perhaps the prettiest chunk of the lower 48Outside's long reads email newsletter features our strongest writing, most ambitious reporting, and award-winning storytelling about the outdoors..This is the tenth year of my blog at Semi-Rad.com, and since I started it, I’ve been fortunate to get to do some pretty wonderful adventures. Throughout this year, I’ll be writing about 12 of my favorites, . This is the eighth in the series.In the predawn hours before the first day of our trip, I stared at the ceiling of the van above the mattress as I tried to get...WW…