6/30: Miles 1167.0-1179.1 (12.2 mi.) Total ascent: 1680′; descent: 1539′ 7/1: Miles 1179.1-1191.9 (13.5 mi., including detour) Total ascent: 2592′; descent 2041′ 7/2: Miles 1191.9-1196.1 (4.1 mi.) Total ascent: 610′; descent 574′ I can’t say these days have been much of a honeymoon. Rachel and I have been, in varying combinations and degrees, hot, sick, […]
Month: July 2021
Miles 1153.9-1167.0 (13.1 mi.) Total Ascent: 2231’; descent: 2736’ How wonderful it is to have a cold, gushing spring beside our tent tonight. The water table has gotten so low that we passed multiple dry springs today and had to rely on a trail angel for our midday fill. In the forecast are three and […]
6/27: Miles 1131.9-1142.0 (10.1 mi.) Total Ascent: 1752’; descent: 1450’ 6/28: Miles 1142.0-1153.9 (11.1 mi.) Total Ascent: 2320’; descent: 1870’ I’m confident in calling today our sweatiest day on trail (yet: it will get worse). We sweated so much it was as if we hadn’t been lucky to be beneath the awning of Mutzabaugh’s, an […]