SNAKE PIT AT LUNCHTIME
PCT DAY 36: Mile 659.5 – Mile 681.5 (Chimney Creek Campground) Thursday May 19, 2016: 22 miles (35.2 km) If yesterday was one of our best lunchtime experience on the trail then today… Continue reading
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TRAIL MAGIC +
PCT DAY 35: Mile 638.4 – Mile 659.5 Wednesday May 18, 2016: 21.1 miles (33.8 km) Today is the end of our fifth week of hiking. Remarkable how quickly it has gone. And we… Continue reading
STORM IN THE DESERT
PCT DAY 34: Mile 618.3 – Mile 638.4 Tuesday May 17, 2016: 20.1 miles (32.2km) We were woken several times through the night by gusts of wind that rattled through the rainfly on… Continue reading
PERFECT DAY
PCT DAY 33: Mile 599 – Mile 618.3 Monday May 16, 2016: 19.3miles (30.9 km) I have a feeling even the birds woke up happy this morning. I was awake just before 5am… Continue reading
HELLO FROM THE WILDERNESS
Of course we knew we would have no phone reception once we headed into the Sierra range. But we were not expecting that the 7 days from Tehachapi to Kennedy Meadows would be… Continue reading
HIKING THROUGH TALL GRASS
PCT DAY 32: Mile 577.5 – Mile 599 Sunday May 15, 2016: 21.5 miles (34.5 km) Last night we camped at an elevation of nearly 6,000 feet. It was cold and the wind… Continue reading
BATTLING THE WIND
PCT DAY 31: Mile 558.5 (Willow Spring Rd, Tehachapi) – Mile 577.5 Saturday May 14, 2016: 19 miles (30.5 km) We spent the first few hours of the morning walking through one of Californias… Continue reading
ALMOST A RESTFUL DAY
PCT DAY 30: Tehachapi – Rest Day # 2 Friday May 13, 2016: Zero miles day Our second zero miles day. The first was in Idyllwild in what seems like ages ago. We… Continue reading
INTO TEHACHAPI
PCT DAY 29: Mile 553.5 – Mile 558.5 Thursday May 12, 2016: 5 miles (8 km) Our day started at 5.00am when I reached to close the hood on my sleeping bag as… Continue reading
EMBRACING THE WIND
PCT DAY 28: Mile 535 (Cottonwood Creek) – Mile 553.4 Wednesday May 11, 2016: 18.4 miles PCT ( 29.6 km) It was so beautiful to wake up in the quite of the morning. It… Continue reading