Miles: 1807 to 1830.4 Mileage: 23.4, plus 1.2 to Mazama Village resupply Day: 89 After our longest day yet, I slept through the first alarm. Richard slept through the second. We got started after 7:30 a.m. but made great progress all morning. We followed a drainage down the valley and then side-hilled through old forest […]
Miles: 1774.4 to 1807 Mileage: 32.6 Day: 88 It didn’t rain overnight, but the trees dripped their darnedest so the tent was wet when Richard packed it away. While the rain stayed away all day, thankfully, it wasn’t always sunny. At one point, we were walking through thick enough tree cover that I put my […]
Miles: 1743.5 to 1774.4 Mileage: 30.9 Day: 87 No matter how hard we try, it always seems to take us an hour to get moving in the morning. Richard’s watch is our alarm. It beeps 10 times. After that we usually make eye contact but don’t speak right away. If one of us closes their […]
Miles: 1726.5 to 1743.5 Mileage: 17 Day: 86 We slept on a pillow top mattress under clean sheets after a soak in the jacuzzi tub. It felt great. I had some indigestion overnight that I blame entirely on gluttony. I did spend much of my zero eating. We spent a little time organizing and then […]
Miles: 1726.5 to 1726.5 Mileage: 0 Day: 85 I can’t believe we did it. We had so much to do today and we got it all done. I really thought something would fall through the cracks or have to be postponed. So, the backstory is: Richard got a job as lead physician at McMurdo Station […]
Miles: 1699.2 to 1726.5 Mileage: 27.3, plus 1 mile to Callahan’s Lodge Day: 84 Excited to get to town (where there is Indian food and pizza) we got up at 5:30 a.m. The terrain was gentle. It reminded me of Southern California when the grades of the trail were made for horse packers. If this […]
Miles: 1668.8 to 1699.2 Mileage: 30.4 Day: 83 We decided to get up early. The storms always seem to roll in in the afternoon. So we wanted to get a few more miles in before they ruined our plans to get out of California. We were on the trail around 6:45 a.m., a reasonable attempt […]
Miles: 1647.7 to 1668.8 Mileage: 21.1 Day: 82 When we woke up, the other hikers were gone that had shared our campsite. We are such late risers compared to everyone else. We were motivated to make it to town by 1 p.m., however, because the only restaurant in the small village of Seiad Valley closes […]
Miles: 1617.1 to 1647.7 Mileage: 30.6 Day: 81 Again we woke to blue skies. How long will this last? A couple of hours before the thunder clouds return, maybe, I thought. But it lasted all day. We started late, per usual. But given the good weather and the prospect of hitting the diner in town […]
Miles: 1585.5 to 1617.1 Mileage: 31.6 Day: 80 The day started cool and cloudy. Quite a change since so many days on the trail have started blue and cloudless — and mostly stayed that way. The rare day has clouded over by the afternoon, but not many. (The Sierras stand as the exception, as it […]