Tag: Kearsarge Pass

Back in the saddle

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 […]

Goodbye for now, Sierras

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 […]