The Name

My trail name is "Steady-State" which is a call back to my education and has meaning for my hike as well.

Steady-state is a term used in many different disciplines but in general it refers to system whose response is not time dependent or that changes in a predictable manner with time. For example imagine that the temperature of your house is being plotted verses time in the above figure. When you start recording the temperature is increasing but there are weird spikes in the response until you get to time tss and then after that the temperature is gently moving up and down in a sinusoidal manner - the system has reached steady-state.

The name perhaps describes my personality as well.

steady-state



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Also...

Thanks to all of you for reading my blog, for praying and for the many kind offers to come see me on the trail! Please keep reading and commenting and following me when I start my journey.

I leave in three weeks!
March 14th (yes that's Pi day)
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