Pro tip : if it feels like you are stepping on a nail every time you take a step, perhaps there is something stuck in your foot. No scale in the pic, but it’s about an inch long. It’s called a foxtail. Wikipedia mentions that it can be a “nuisance” to people. Nice. Needless to say,…
Category: PCT2017
PCT18 – mile 268 – Big Bear City/Lake/whatever
What a difference a few days can make. Well that and surgically removing a foreign object from the bottom of my foot. I got up early from the state park and got in almost immediate hitch up to the Devil Slide trail, which I banged out before the sun came up. A long hard slog…
PCT23 – mile 369 – Wrightwood
Video updates – new stuff and some older stuff uploaded to my youtube channel, which you can get to from the top of the page. I got in and out of the Big Bears without too much hassle. The hassle was getting around in and between the two towns . My packages were in Big…
PCT28 – stuck inside of Wrightwood, with the Tehachapi blues again
As charming as Wrightwood is, and as super friendly as the people are, it’s starting to wear thin. Not much to report. The foot is still bad; can’t put much weight on it. It has gotten less bad, though, so we’ll see. Monday it might be time for an xray, if it’s a stress fracture,…
Oh, what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
After a week of rest with dimimishing returns, Trail Angel Rich got me into a radiology place. It’s official, a Jones fracture, non-displaced at least. Weeks of feet-up rehab. My theory is that the massive spill on day3 left some damage that strangely was not healed by 16 more 20 mile days. (Picture taken from Wikipedia, since…