Just when I was resigned to an afternoon of relaxation and munching soft serve ice cream at the very middling Kennedy Meadows North, an opportunity presented itself! Merlin, Marble, Lucky Charm, Half ...

Kennedy Meadows North, as per their own saying, has nothing to do with Kennedy Meadows South. Kennedy Meadows North has better infrastructure, food and hiker supplies. Kennedy Meadows North even had ...

I woke up at 5h30 and heard the rain pattering on my tent. Any form of wetness is a good enough excuse, so I went back to bed. At 6 I woke again and packed up. Something instantly felt off. Last night ...

Not much to report. I hiked for a while with Andy, we ended up doing 24 miles and 5000 feet of up. Quite a lot for this terrain. Not really feeling it today. Hopefully tomorrow is better. Although a ...

Waking up, I realized we’d pulled it off. Due to the bullshit permit system, it was sort of illegal for us to camp at the main backpacking campground. But no one caught us, so there’s ...

We got to Tuolumne early in the morning, with time for breakfast while we waited for the shuttle into Tuolumne Valley. I had a pint of ice cream and a microwaved burrito to start the day. The ...

Due to us heading into Yosemite Valley tomorrow and the fact that we were already close to the place, we actually had a short day. Long breaks every couple of miles, only 1500 feet of uphill, this is ...

We got a slow start back to trail. By the time we got out of the Airbnb, through the 3 shuttles and out of Red’s Meadow, it was 1pm. I briefly saw Jesse and the other Belgians heading into ...

Another exhausting zero. From Red’s Meadow, we took three different shuttles to get to Mammoth. Beetle and Shield (previously Pants, previously Andy, named for his heroic effort to save Hanna ...