Miles: 789.4 to 790.2 Mileage: 0.8, plus 7.5 up and over Kearsarge Pass to get back to the PCT Day: 49 We’re finally back on the trail! After 6 zeroes and 3 slack pack days we are fully-loaded and heading north. We took a slow morning in town to make sure all of our real […]
Miles: 0 Day: 46, 47, 48 We spent one day making ourselves human: showers, laundry, shower again, body hair management, sleep. One day being human: dealing with other humans, making plans for after the trail, more showers. And one day turning back into hikers. Resupply, eat, return rental car, pack pack. Part of our time […]
Miles: 1078.7 to 1094 Mileage: 15.3 Day: 45 We set the alarm for 8. After 65 miles in two days, we decided to take an easier day, with the option of opting out if we needed to. But it all worked. We got up and packed up our campsite. We headed to breakfast at a […]
Miles: 1127.1 to 1159.7 Mileage: 32.6, plus .75 to car Day: 30 Today it was Richard’s turn to ride the bike uphill. We got started from the campsite a little later than the day before, but still early enough to finish. Also, instead of the hour drive that Richard had, my drive north to Interstate […]
Miles: 1094 to 1127.1 Mileage: 33.1 Day: 43 Up before light, I crawled out of my sleeping bag and found my way to the rental car. I decided to change into my hiking clothes from under the protective waves of engine-generated heat. Richard drove me and the bike to the gate across Barker Pass Road. […]
Miles: 0 Ok. I hope this is not a trend. Today was not complicated by illness but by logistics. We slept in to allow a little more recovery time and left the motel around 10 a.m. We planned to drive about 2 hours north to the Lake Tahoe area for 2 or 3 days of […]
Mileage: 0 Never mind the miles, my body said. You’re not going anywhere. And so I sat, and Richard sat with me, in our motel room for another day and night. Time was spent on the toilet, listening to podcasts and catching up on lost sleep and fluids. Around 10 a.m., the unprepared cleaning lady […]
Miles: 789.9 to 789.9 Mileage: 0 Day: 40 Coming down out of the Sierras for real world business and a week of slacking*, we knew we would need a solid day to get the logistics in order. *Slacking, or slack packing, is when thru hikers cover miles on the long distance trail they’re hiking but […]
Miles: 778.9 to 789.4 Mileage: 10.5 (plus, 7.5 up and over Kearsarge Pass to Independence, California) Day: 39 Neither of us slept well thinking about the pass all night. Would it go? Would we have to turn around? Plus, it was cold. We set up our tent on snow and really pushed our lightweight summer […]
Miles: 774.2 to 778.9 Mileage: 4.7 Day: 38 And still up next, Forester Pass. Half awake in the middle of the night, I tried to scooch my head toward the end of the tent. I tend to slip down my sleeping pad as I switch positions. The only problem was, I couldn’t. The end of […]