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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…