Month: August 2017

We let ourselves sleep in as long as we wanted this morning, and took our time packing up and eating breakfast. We hit the trail around 8, which is pretty late for us. Aside from a little stiffness, our bodies …

We set out this morning with the goal of hiking a new longest day. Our previous record was 32 miles, and we wanted at least 35 but were really aiming for 40. We left camp at first light and headed …

This fire closure has proved to be more of an inconvenience than we anticipated. About 40 miles of trail are closed, but to get around the closure requires a roundabout highway route of over 100 miles. It’s tough to find …

Today marks 3 months on the trail! Just 2 more to go, and about 1,000 miles. Fires have exploded all over Oregon. The fire we saw the day we entered Crater Lake has now prompted a trail closure of around …

Fires are burning all over the place. The fire we saw near Crater Lake has grown and we are fast approaching a fire closure ahead that has been growing in size. A thick haze was hanging in the air this …

We spent the morning continuing through the land of lakes. We camped at a pond last night, had second breakfast at a lake this morning, first lunch at a stream and second lunch at another lake. We got our feet …

We walked past literally dozens of ponds and lakes today. Every mile or so there was another lake with camping along the shore. We had a nice morning walk despite feeling a little tired today. We had a late afternoon …

The promise of hot food always gets us going at a good speed. Today we had around 17 miles to walk to Shelter Cove, a resort marina on Odell Lake. We sent ourselves a resupply box there, and also planned …

This morning was a nice slow morning as we enjoyed the lake and the solitude and a hot breakfast. We hit the trail by 7:30 and headed for our mile 1500 and then a water cache about 12 miles in. …

We woke up early this morning, hoping to do a big day and get the long water carries out of the way. We started slightly behind schedule, getting on the trail about ten minutes past six. The morning miles were …

If we thought the mosquitos couldn’t be worse than yesterday, we were wrong. We could hear them buzzing outside the tent before we even opened our eyes. We had a little over six miles to hike to get to Mazama …

These mosquitos are really no joke. Deet will deter them, but only for about an hour and in the meantime they just go for your face. From the moment we got up this morning we were running to avoid them. …