Miles: 18 Total: 788 Water: icy-clear snowmelt streams above 12,000 feet. No filter. Forester Pass looms impressive, impossible in the … Continue reading Day 44 Walking the Impassible. Winter, with Flowers.

Miles: 20 Total: 770 Water: so much water! Today is the last bit of new-to-me trail for almost two hundred … Continue reading Day 43 Magical Meadows and Familiar Sites

Miles: 20 Total: 751 Water: 2L from a creek; 3L from Chicken Spring Lake The cold morning has me thinking … Continue reading Day 42 Walking to New Heights

Miles: 21 Total: 731 Water: meadow-side spring; Kern River; Death Canyon Spring I don’t wake until morning, no bears hungering … Continue reading Day 41 Resting Peacefully in Death Canyon 

Miles: 8 Total: 710 Water: Store faucet; 1L campground faucet; 1L South Fork Kern River The sea of tiny tents … Continue reading Day 40 Escaping the Vortex, Heading for the Hills

Miles: 19 +.8 to the store Total: 702 Water: From last night; gatorade, beer, tap at the store I stop … Continue reading Day 39 I Will Survive

Miles: 26.5 Total: 683 Water: 3 from a creek; 4 from another creek. Too lazy for quarter miles side trail … Continue reading Day 38 Snaking Toward Kennedy Meadows

Miles: 24 Total: 657 Water: 4L+ from Walker Pass troughs I wake up two minutes before my alarm, just in … Continue reading Day 37 Reunions on a Windy Ridge. And an Orange

Miles: 18 Total: 634 Water: 1.5 from Kelso Caches; 2L from Bird Springs Cache A mosquito buzzes me awake to … Continue reading Day 36 The Desert is Kind

Miles: 22 Total: 615 Water: 2L from Robin Bird spring; carried 6L from landers spring Despite the long day I … Continue reading Day 35 Operation Hydration