Tag: pacific crest trail
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Fire on the Mountain – Day 60 + 61: Zeroing in Lone Pine
Time off in Lone Pine was the usual – food, resupply, naps. I got my first real intense wave of hiker hunger and no matter how much I ate my brain wanted more. The road to Bishop after Kearsarge Pass is currently closed – that’s our next resupply after this Sierra stretch. The group I’m…
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Getting High – Day 58: Cow Creek Tentsite to 10500′ Tentsite
PCT miles: 719.2 to 735.1 Miles: 15.9 I wake and am on the trail by 6:20. It is still strange to me that in this group I am the earliest riser. I only get a mile or so before my body makes me stop and eat breakfast, half a Biscuits and Gravy Mountain House that…
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Building a Sierra Tramily – Day 57: Kennedy Meadows Campground to Cow Creek Tentsite
PCT miles: 704.6 to 719.2 Miles: 14.6 I’m the first one of the group on trail at 6am – it sounds like they tend to start between 7 and 730, but I’m slow and afraid they’ll get far ahead and I also prefer the cool morning hours. I wish I was brave enough to get…
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Nero at Kennedy Meadows – Day 56: Kennedy Meadows General Store to Kennedy Meadows Campground
PCT miles: 702 to 704 Miles: 2 I woke up and tried to get my blogs posted while fewer people were on the wifi. Legend was in the parking lot pouring coffee so I chatted with him and some hikers and then Legend drove us down the street to Grumpy Bear’s for breakfast. Grumpy Bear’s…
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And Then the Desert Was Over – Day 55: Fox Mill Creek to Kennedy Meadows
PCT Miles: 683.1 to 702.2 (+.7 to the general store) I have intentions of getting up at first light and setting out, but it’s chilly which makes me slow. Instead Nobody and I head out around 6. We have 19-something miles to cover to get to Kennedy Meadows today and it feels like it’s going…
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Post-Family Blues – Day 53: Walker Pass to Spanish Needle Creek
PCT Miles: 652.1 to 668.7 Miles: 16.7 My stomach has one last hurrah in the hotel toilet. At least I hope that’s the last of it. Mark drops me off at the trailhead at 7:30 and it is so very, very hard to let him go. My body feels rested and strong but tired. The…
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Day 50, 51, 52: Off Trail Recovering, Happy Birthday to Me
(Internet isn’t strong enough for photos, will try to update later, although there aren’t many.) Saturday Mark, Mark’s sister and mom, and I go to breakfast in Lake Isabella. Whoopie and Harvest finish up their plans to get to Bakersfield while we’re gone. My head pounds from dehydration and lack of food. At breakfast I…
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Day 50, 51, 52: Off Trail Recovering, Happy Birthday to Me
(Internet isn’t strong enough for photos, will try to update later, although there aren’t many.) Saturday Mark, Mark’s sister and mom, and I go to breakfast in Lake Isabella. Whoopie and Harvest finish up their plans to get to Bakersfield while we’re gone. My head pounds from dehydration and lack of food. At breakfast I…
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First Slackpacking of the Trail – Day 47: Tehachapi to Windy Mountain Campsite
Pct miles: 558 to 570.8 Miles: 12.8 I wake up and manage to eat some continental breakfast and while everyone is still in bed I do our laundry. We slowly get our packs together for checkout, and then I drop mine off at Rachel and Mousetrap’s room and head back to the grocery store. I…
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Day 46: Zero In Tehachapi
The nurse practitioner I meet is nice and says she can do a bunch of tests but she suspects it’s my diet causing the cramps and that I may be a little constipated. She recommends a handful of vitamins to get supplements for and tests me for a UTI just in case – “there’s a…
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