MM: 168.6 – Fire Closure (2013 Fire) Trail Miles: None Miles Walked: 10 + running around town With a little over 8 miles of the PCT still closed from the 2013 Mountain Fire near Idyllwild, CA, we had left the trail at mile 168.6. There was a re-route/alternate trail to get us to Idyllwild. Wanderer …
MM: 168.6 Trail Miles: 18.7 Miles Walked: 23.5 Cowboy Camp – Hiker slang for sleeping outside without a tent I woke up from my first night of cowboy camping around 0400. Zack, the young guy from OR was packing up. He’d said he was getting the trail at 0415. I hadn’t gotten much sleep – …
MM: 149.8 Trail Miles: 20.7 Miles Walked: 20.9 Camping on exposed ridges it not something my tent cares to do. Twice in the night, when the winds picked up, one of my main tent stakes came undone and half the tent collapsed on me. It’s a super light weight tent – made from Dyneema Cuben …
MM: 129.2 Trail Miles: 19.7 Miles Walked: 20.7 My alarm went off at 0500. I tried to ignore it. It was cold and way too early. Not seeing my headlamp on, Wanderer came over to my tent, and said it was time to get up. We were going to leave early, by 0600, to avoid …
MM: 109.5 Trail Miles: 8.5 Miles Walked: 10.1 After the big day yesterday (24miles), I was glad to have an easy day. Every big day came with a price – blisters, sore feet, knees – and I felt like I needed to give my body a break. It was the warmest day yet, but we …
MM: 101 Trail Miles: 24 Miles Walked: 24.5 My alarm went off at 0600. Despite being in a hotel room with a comfy bed, I did not get a good nights sleep. I turned the lights out around 9:30 but was awake again at 11:30 till about 3:30. I used the time to work on …
MM: 77 Trail Miles: 15.5 Miles Walked: 15.5 Some days are going to be tougher than others. Today was one of those days, physically and mentally. There was a high wind warning in effect last night. It goes until tomorrow. Gusts 35-50 mph, with isolated gusts to 60 mph along mountain ridge lines. I was …
MM: 61.5 Trail Miles: 18.9 Miles Walked: 20.2 I woke up early, before the others I think. But I was still the last one to leave the room. I was way behind in my blog posts and finally had cell/internet. I told Slim I was going to leave at 0800. Good thing he didn’t wait …
Mile Marker: 42.6 Trail Miles: 10 Walked Miles: 12 Winds woke me up at 0200. We were in the trees but the winds were strong enough to have loosened several tent stakes. Will have to use rocks in the future with winds. I worked on the blog some until I fell back asleep. Awoke again …
Mile Marker (MM): 32.6 Trail Miles: 12.6 Miles Walked: 13.4 I didn’t get out of camp until 0810. I had to stop for selfies right away of course cause I forgot to take them at camp. I met a few hikers cooking breakfast and seems like a really nice group but they all left early. …