July 5th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 22 Start Location: Mile 1066 End Location: 1088 End Location GPS: 38.78786, -120.04235 Absolutely gorgeous day. I can always tell when I’ve found the day scenic by the number of pictures I took. I’ll let them explain the day. We are camped 3 miles from HW50 which goes into Lake […]

July 4th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 17 Start Location: Ebbitts Pass Mile 1048 End Location: Mile 1066 End Location GPS: 38.62344, -119.90832 Happy Independance day! Gina and Danny drove us back to the trail in the morning after an amazing weekend at the cabin. They decided to walk a few miles with us along with the

July 3rd, 2016 Zero Day in Arnold Another fantastic day at chalet Biocini. A lot of relaxing and walking the dogs and Chinese food. It will be hard to hit the trail again tommorrow ?.

July 2nd, 2016 Zero Day in Arnold, CA We had a lovely day at chalet Biocini. It started off leisurely with a wonderful egg scramble and coffe. Soon after the power went out, but since the refrigerator wasn’t working to begin with, all the food and beer were kept nice and cold via coolers and

July 1st, 2016 Miles Hiked: 14 Start Location: 1034 End Location: Ebbitts Pass Mile 1048 End Location GPS: 38.54574, -119.81126 Had a nice morning hiking through some really beautiful and easier sections of trail. Very patchy snow in only a few areas and not too difficult to walk through.  I checked my phone if I

June 30th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 17 Start Location: Sanora Pass Mile 1017 End Location: Mile 1034 End Location GPS: 38.45333, -119.72479 Went up and over another 10k foot ridge early in the morning. If you guessed there were scary snow sections, you win the prize! The snow doesn’t want to stop so I guess I

June 29th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 11 Start Location: Mile 1006 End Location: Sonora Pass Mile 1017 End Location GPS: 38.32912, -119.63530 We woke up early, around 4 AM. The mosquitos were out at full force even in the morning hours, on account of warm temperatures. It was difficult taking a poo as they swarmed my

June 28th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 8 Start Location: 998 End Location: 1006 End Location GPS: 38.25354, -119.59966 1000 Miles!

June 27th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 20 Start Location: Mile 968 End Location: Mile 998 End Location GPS: 38.18694, -119.57132 Mosquitos blanketed the sun drenched sky, showing up as tiny specs of flying dust, like the particles in a room when the light filters through the window and catches them at the right angle. They were

June 26th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 16 Start Location: Mile 962 End Location: Mile 978 End Location GPS: 38.04699, -119.54115 A lot of climbing today. We planned on 20 miles again but the climbs and snow (ugh, still) slowed us down. Even though the views continue to be overly impressive, I’m kind of getting tired of