The trail treats us with back to back 7 mile water carries today which I can't remember having happened yet. The first 7 miles meanders through a pine forest with boulders for the kids to play on and plenty of shade. This area looks more like the Black Hills of South Dakota than the desert... Continue Reading →

Today was spent covering the last 15 miles of the 19 mile water carry. It was a long and hot day with steep climbs that just kept coming one after another. We've reached the point where we're all tired of the dry desert hills we've been climbing for the last two months, but we also... Continue Reading →

We wake to sunny skies and lighter winds. We have 10 miles to cover to the next water source. It's easy at first but the last few miles get hot and arduous. Luckily the water source has great shade and we siesta for a couple hours. We aren't in a hurry to get moving again... Continue Reading →

Today's theme: slow and heavy. General gives us a ride to the trail after lunch and we start walking uphill with the heaviest packs we've carried yet. The climb is long and fairly steep at times, but we continue to plod along. The wind picks up near the top and we get to relive the... Continue Reading →

We wake in the morning to sunny skies and light wind. It's cold out so we take our time getting up and packing. The trail is a mostly downhill 8 miles to Tehachapi where we'll be taking a double zero. We walk into yet another wind farm so of course the wind stars picking up,... Continue Reading →

So we thought we'd hiked through some serious wind before...we were so wrong.  From the minute we left camp until the next morning we were almost continuously blasted by wind.  We left camp early, quickly climbing out of our sheltered valley and into what was likely a 50mph head wind for the next few miles. ... Continue Reading →

We slept well last night except of course for the dirt road related interruption at 1:30am.  About ten ATV's came down the road making a lot of noise and proceeded to stop very near to our tents while they figured out where they were going.  They then turned around shining bright headlights all over our... Continue Reading →

We get up this morning with the plan to be lazy until we start night hiking.  We're pretty successful on this front.  We catch a ride into the Neenatch market for breakfast along with General and the Daley family.  The hiker lounge at the market is open today, and we eat while all of the... Continue Reading →

We arrived at Hiker Town after a quick couple of miles.  It's hard to explain this place but it is certainly unique.  It has a bunch of small buildings decorated as different town buildings like a bank, a florist shop, sheriff, etc.  More importantly, there are showers, charging stations, and regular rides to a nearby... Continue Reading →

This is starting to sound redundant, but we got up early to beat the heat and were on the trail before it was light, covering a couple miles before the sun came up.  Bat Boy took the lead this morning, moving at a pace that was hard to keep up with.  A little further along... Continue Reading →