Miles: 1075.3 to 1078.7 Mileage: 3.4 Day: 62 To reward ourselves for the 32-mile day, we turned off our alarms. Not that we slept late or anything. The sun hit the tent early and we were baking by 7 a.m. We got up and were about to leave just as a fellow hiker walked past […]
Miles: 852.8 to 879.3 Mileage: 26.5 Day: 53 Today was our longest day in weeks. It was really hard and exhausting, but really nice to know that with normal-weight packs and not super snowy passes, we still have it! We did just over a marathon. And while it felt like it and we are very […]
Miles: 831.2 to 852.8 Mileage: 21.6 Day: 52 The weather was beautiful ALL DAY! I can’t believe it! It didn’t rain or snow ONCE! Our climb up to Muir Pass was pretty normal until we kept losing the trail under huge patches of snow about two miles before the top. It took us nearly an […]
Miles: 809.9 to 831.2 Mileage: 21.3 Day: 51 It snowed overnight. While it’s annoying to think about getting up and moving in the snow, I was so glad to have a tent to hunker down in. Some hikers carry tarps or camp without a shelter. To me, the extra weight is so worth having a […]
Miles: 790.2 to 809.9 Mileage: 19.7 Day: 50! Will we ever get away from the snow? The morning started off beautifully, if a little chilly. We made it over Glen Pass and the snow on the north side wasn’t too bad. We used our microspikes and ice axes, although the ice axes were probably overkill. […]
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 […]
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: 476.7 to 502.3 Mileage: PCT: 14.5; roadwalking: 4; hitch hiking: 6; bushwhack: 1; PCT closed due to fire: 12 Day: 24 Today we had to find our way around the last current fire closure (if there’s another one in the future, it will be for an active fire; this was the last closure from […]