Miles: 1202.4 to 1229.9 Trail Miles: 27.5 I awoke early to animals sounds at 0400. I think it was a mule deer. Later, at 0530, a mule deer came sniffing around within 20 ft of my tent. Time to get up. I was on the trail at 0612. I stopped for second breakfast 90 minutes …
Miles: 1191.5 to 1202.4 Trail Miles: 10.9 Miles Hiked: 14.0 Woke early-ish, 0530. On trail at 0715 after nice morning breakfast. My one trekking pole was definitely broken. Going over some rocks I put weight on it and it bent. Decided to put it away and save it for tent use only. I’ve realized how …
Miles: 1168.5 to 1191.5 Trail Miles: 23 The hiker who arrived at camp late last night was already gone when I woke at 0530. He was ultralight and fast. Me on the other hand? I didn’t get on trail until 0700. I knew if I pushed it, I could make it to Sierra City today, …
Miles: 1153.4 to 1168.5 Trail Miles: 15.1 The Sierra Club lodge provided dinner, breakfast and a pack-your-own lunch. At 7:30 I went down and made a large sandwich – six slices of cheese and double meat. I then had breakfast: French toast and two large bowls of real oatmeal, not instant, with milk, brown sugar, …
Miles: 1146.6 to 1153.4 Trail Miles: 6.8 I slept in again. It felt really good, so I obviously needed it. Still, I had some ‘hiker guilt’ about doing so and it was reinforced by the number of hikers I heard going by my tent. I finally got the on trail about 0720, just as Bandit …
Miles: 1123.3 to 1146.6 Trail Miles: 23.3 Last night I camped with Smokebeard and Cody, a TRT hiker we had met. We got to camp at 6 pm, the earliest I had in a while. It made for a nice, leisurely meal at a reasonable hour. We had a fire to help with the mosquitos …
Miles: 1101.7 to 1123.3 Trail Miles: 21.6 I woke up a little after five. I tried to doze in my sleeping bag – I was running a sleep deficit, a few minutes more sleep would be nice. I heard Smokebeard rustling in his tent about 0530 so I started packing too. He got on the …
Miles: 1076.9 to 1101.7 Trail Miles: 24.8 I woke at 5:18 AM and saw other hikers were already packed and getting on the trail. Everybody was in a hurry today to get to South Lake Tahoe. They were moving at what we call “town speed.” Momento and Waterfall were up and Sage, who’d camp with …