Day 22 PCT Mile Marker 1272.09 – 286.47 Miles Hiked 14.38 It was a viciously cold night. I gathered my electronics into a bag and put them in the bottom of my sleeping bag so they wouldn’t die. I put on All Of My Clothes. I woke up over and Read more…
Day 21 PCT Mile Marker 1265.4 – 1272.09 Miles Hiked 6.69 Aidan hiked out with me for a while. It was afternoon and I didn’t have any real plan on where I was trying to go for the day. The boys came too and were so, so happy to roll Read more…
Day 20 Mileage 0 There was food all over the floor. Piles of noodles and peanut butter sandwiches. Cookies and breakfast pastries. Nuts and berries and tuna fish and mashed potatoes and TVP and dried vegetable soup. And protein bars. Forty-seven-hundred of them. At least there’s a good variety. I Read more…
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…