This was it then. The supposed climax of the heat which had been beating relentlessly down on us these past 2 weeks. Seiad Valley was already generally hotter than the rest of NorCal, but with the ...

Mash had been hounding us for days now to do a 30  mile day together and today we did. I got up and left, racing ahead of the others. Usually, I prefer to switch hiking alone with parts together, ...

The heatwave that never ends didn’t either today. We made a quick stop in Etna, a teeny tiny town. Fitz and Lavalamp had camped there the night prior on the high school tennis court. We rested ...

It was supposed to be a short day, only 21 miles. It did not feel like a short day at all. FarOut had warned us about a ‘Blowdown Buffet’ and for once, it wasn’t exaggerated. It felt ...

Time for my actual birthday! I felt like it had been going on for a long time, basically since Shasta, such that I didn’t expect anything to happen today, far from town. How wrong I was! It ...

Time for a tale of tragedy and sadness! It began in the morning, when Lucky Charm’s eye fell upon a dead moth lying on the trail. It was a beautiful, big moth, a deep orange hue tinting its ...

3 months on trail today. I remember way back when such milestones meant something. Now I barely gave it a second thought. I did a lot, but there is more to do, much more. Dog On gave us a ride back to ...

After the excesses of the previous night, I slept in until 10. Most of the day was spent preparing the birthday barbeque for IPA and myself. At 5pm, everyone gathered at the koa (where Mash and me ...

Shasta was a special place. People had described it as a ‘spiritual town’. Which in reality meant that half the population believed that skinwalkers, lemurians, scoocums, big foot and ...