PCT Day 125, Tamarack Road to water faucet, 4 miles
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. – Marsha Norman It’s a sleeping in kind of day, the walk coming up only about positioning for a big climb and water carry tomorrow. I dream about boyfriends-of-the-past, mostly conjuring them back into my subconscious so I can shake my head ‘no’ […]
PCT Day 124, zero, Palm Springs
What I learned crashing in Palm Springs for a ‘zero’ on Halloween and Pride weekend: desert weather is better than the upper great lakes …in November, anyway snag the motel next to the action try on a costume/disguise/different personality/gender – sometimes it’s all you need people love having their picture taken –> [see day 123] […]
PCT Day 123, Whitewater River to Tamarack Road (Palm Springs), 11 miles
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. – Peace Pilgrim I know I repeat myself, but it’s cold. The water bottles are chunky and, unfortunately, I left the Sawyer Squeeze outside Big Greenie and it freezes solid, no flow at all. My emergency purifying pills to the […]
PCT Day 122, ridge above Mission Creek to Whitewater River, 18 miles
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Remember, you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. – Harriet Tubman It’s cold. But that’s a good thing, right? Because we’re in the desert still and it makes for deep sleeping cuddled in Big Greenie […]
PCT Day 121, Arrastre Trail Camp to ridge above Mission Creek, 18 miles
Sometimes questions are more important than answers. – Nancy Willard Because it was so cold down in the creek canyon, I shared Ted’s tent, a tiny two-man tent, the one he uses with his son every year on an overland marathon in Scotland. It felt like an animal’s underground lair, tight and warm in a […]
Day 120, Van Dusen Road to Arrastre Trail Camp, 19 miles
A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, ‘For a man, you’re kind of ignorant.’ – Anne Hathaway A bed, a shower, loads of coffee and a comfy chair are all taken advantage of before trail angel ‘Papa Smurf’ comes to pick us up to return to the trail […]
PCT Day 119, zero, Big Bear Lake
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. – Tallulah Bankhead
PCT Day 118, Holcomb Creek to Van Dusen Road (Big Bear Lake) 18 miles
I don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try. – Nikki Giovanni Another glorious night solo by a stream for a change, the sound so relaxing until an acorn bomb crashes on the alicoop. […]
PCT Day 117, ridge above highway 173 to Holcomb Creek, 26 miles
The thing that is really hard and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and starting the work of being yourself. – Anna Quindlen My cowgirl night is heavenly. It got absolute silent except for an owl, “Hoo’hool hoooool hoo,” and a snake’s rattle twitching a few times, though I can’t be sure that’s […]
PCT Day 116, dry river bed near Cajon Pass to ridge above highway 173, 24 miles
I was built this way for a reason, so I’m going to use it. – Simone Biles I adore my camp spot just over the hill from the trains chugging up Cajon Pass. I hear their horns through the night – some long and steady, some short and sassy – but it calms me, somehow. […]
