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The advantages of a trail family are numerous: cheap accomodation, mental boosts when you need it, always someone to talk to. And yes, I realize I have been critical of trail families as well. But ...

A day of both elation and sadness. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw McLovin and Busy Bee sitting at the water source, after I was so sure they were way behind. McLovin had hiked the ...

2 days in a row of not hiking. What an odd thing. What’s even more, I went to the movies today. Tehachapi has a tiny movie theatre with 4 screens. Merlin, Marble, IPA and me went to see ...

Slow day. I slept in until 8. Feels so good. I got the practicalities out of the way early and Guillaume and I headed to Walmart for the obligatory resupply. On the way we saw High Five, No Bear and ...

In the morning I said goodbye to Coyote. He would get a ride from Hikertown back to LA for his flight home. Fuck, this sucks. I feel for him as well, he was having a blast here and it pains him even ...

This is it then, the final day with Coyote. We reached Hikertown, the place where our shared journey ends. After being together for this long, it feels weird and sad. I still half expect us to get up ...

‘Never judge people at first sight’, Scout had sagely told us, on a day that now seems a lifetime ago. And right he was. He was right in the case of Dirty Mike and he was oh so right when ...

We had heard word the next spring on trail had received the nickname ‘Fart Water Spring’, due to its sulphuric properties. Upon seeing the sad, leafy puddle that was Fart Water Spring, we ...

The heat is picking up again. We left Acton early in the morning, being kept up at night by the constant traffic and intermittently honking trains passing next to the campground. It was a race to get ...