Day 19 Miles 0 Today was our anniversary. Four Years of Extreme Happiness. Really, we all hit the lottery just by being alive, right? All those people who had to meet at just the right time throughout history. All those people who created little kiddos who survived this tough old Read more…
Day 18 Miles 0 It was snowing in the mountains again today. Time To Study. I sat in my properly heated dining room and binge-watched YouTube videos on my laptop. How to properly attach and use crampons. Techniques for using an Ice Ax. I rolled around on the floor, doing my best Read more…
Day 17 Miles 0 We got back to Mom’s really late last night, and sleeping in this morning was an understandable accident. We shoveled some cereal into our mouths and raced to Grandma’s apartment in town. The thrift store was meeting us at 9am to take all of her furniture. Read more…
Day 16 Miles 0 Got to Mom’s house just after 8am with the truck. She hopped in and after a stop at the grocery store to get sandwich stuff, we were off. The desert drive was so familiar. This mountain range, and that. Shadowy canyons folded into cinnamon hills. The Read more…
Day 15 Miles 0 Did charging / posting / updating / whatever-other-stuff you do with electronics. That was Goal Numero Uno. We unloaded all the goat manure from the back of the truck. Aidan created a spot for it in the side yard, so now we have a little goat Read more…
Day 14 Miles 0 My breakfast was enormous. My tummy was a stuff sack, and I just crammed the whole plate in there. Then I had ice cream with strawberries for dessert. Eating insane amounts of food will be a definite boon to trail life. I was so glad to Read more…
Day 13 PCT Mile Marker 1256.00 – 1265.40 Miles Hiked 9.4 People were heading the other way. Southbound. Toward Sierra City. They’d already heard about the treacherous snow conditions from whomever they saw before me. Mitch? Double Cross? Could be anybody, really. We all survived something and had something to Read more…
Day 12 PCT Mile Marker 1243.10 – 1256.00 Miles Hiked Today 12.9 I woke up and couldn’t find my hat or my pen. What the…? Did I sleep walk and lose them in the woods? I literally had both when I fell asleep. I know I did. I shook out Read more…
Day 11 PCT Mile Marker 1229.09 – 1243.10 Miles Hiked 14.01 I felt good. I’d made it through the worst, and I’d grown as a person. I felt so…alive. Sick of carrying extra weight, I put a good splash of whiskey in my coffee. I went into the woods to Read more…
Day 10 PCT Mile Marker 1217.19 – 1229.09 Miles Hiked 11.9 When I woke up, one of the hikers “Double Cross” was already packed up and gone. Mitch hung around so we could hike the next part together, and we left the third hiker to her coffee and breakfast. I Read more…