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 American [...]
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 classifies [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Day: 294 Didn’t do much today; after yesterdays sunset debacle we weren’t quite ready for an early start. A two cup of coffee morning (as they were beginning to be called) and a post 10 am departure. A couple of miles & 700ft got us through Island Pass and down to Thousand Island lake for [...]
Day: 293 Hike, Hike, Wait. Hike, Hike, Wait. Hike, Hike, Wait. After my third round of this I found myself sitting next to a bridge over Lyell Creek, just before Donohue Pass. It was pushing 2:30pm and we had already covered 5 1/2 miles this morning. It seemed too early to quit for the day, [...]
