(Warning, picture heavy post) “I have no memory of this place”, said the Smokebeard. No longer the Greybeard leading the Fellowship, I’m now just another old, slow hiker. And it turns out that is just fine. After doing many chores and eating a lot of food, we all managed to get out of Wrightwood at…
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PCT17 – 266 – Big Bear
So long Idy, hello Big Bear Getting back on the trail from Idyllwild is always a bit of a challenge. There are at least three ways out of town that connect to different points on PCT. Depending on your level of Trail Purity, where you are staying in Idyllwild, and what you feel like doing,…
Rewind: Pemigewasset Memorial Day 2013
Gather round boys and girls, and hear the tale of my trip through the Pemigewasset Wilderness back in ’13. I wanted to try and get a hike in the Whites before the mobs came, so I drove up early the Saturday morning of Memorial Day weekend. By the time I got to the parking…
PCT+9 = Homeward Bound
Not a bad way to spend 40 days. I suppose. Final tally, 19 days of hiking, 369 miles. 21 days of travel, broken bones, thorns, mammoths and boardwalk ice cream cones. Decent, although I can’t quite decide if going slower would have helped the feet. I think not. And, then I would have missed many…
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,…