After Day: 303
I was going to create a day 304 post, but all that happened was we drove from Sequoia to the coast, hoping to get a beach campground or hotel. Only to find them all occupied and had to make our way home. I didn’t actually get any shots I liked either.
In [...]
Day: 303
Sequoia National Park contains the worlds 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th largest trees (by mass). There are taller trees like the California Coastal Redwoods which get up to 391feet or some very squat trees in south western Australia which get much bigger around, but I found these mammoth trees named after dead [...]
Day: 302
How do you argue with a three year old? After a day at the laundromat, eating pizza and drinking beers with Matt, and an extensive drive from Grass Valley to Sequoia National Park, Regan decided to argue with me…
“Hey girls, check out the sunset!”
“No!” Regan screamed. “That’s a rainbow!”
“Uhh… I hate to say it [...]
Day: 301
After a day in one of the world’s excessively liberal cities, my family felt like it needed a little balance and I went along for the ride. We headed up to the Christian summer camp where my brother works and has worked for the last five summers. The majority of my family [...]
Day: 300
I know, I know, every time I hit a round number post I give myself a big congrats and that you for all reading. So I thought, I’d do it again (I guess I just did) and let you all know that I also crossed the 300,000 line on overall hits on this site. [...]
Day: 299
This morning was much like every other morning for the past two weeks, coffee, breakfast, cold… etc. We called my sister and found she had the same idea as us to drive up and surprise my brother on his birthday, and she was already en route. Instead of having to walk we were able [...]
Day: 298
After a night of my mind racing I came to one steadfast realization; I really don’t feel like spending the next 10 days alone in the wilderness. I would love to finish the trail, but also am self aware enough to know that within three days I’d be insane with boredom.
So over breakfast [...]
Day: 297
Well now the spreadsheet has gone to hell. After the first four miles uphill this morning, Mom whispered, with tears in her eyes “I am not going to be able to finish this…” It hung in the air like a verdict.
It wasn’t the fact that she wasn’t enjoying herself, but her body [...]
Day: 296
Mom woke up with swollen feet and Mike started complaining about his balls (of his feet).
Today we get to resupply, which means last night and this morning we’ve been gorging ourselves on all the food left in our bear canisters.
Mike has a spreadsheet for this entire endeavor laid out; it lists miles per day, [...]
Day: 295
It started out being a single short pass up from Ruby Lake (where I was up for some sunrise pictures), then a supposed 10 miles of downhill.
Then the second pass appeared on our 3rd mile, then the third… by the fourth Mom and I stopped believing about Mikes mysterious rantings about this downhill into [...]
