June 27th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 20 Start Location: Mile 968 End Location: Mile 998 End Location GPS: 38.18694, -119.57132 Mosquitos blanketed the sun drenched sky, showing up as tiny specs of flying dust, like the particles in a room when the light filters through the window and catches them at the right angle. They were […]

June 26th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 16 Start Location: Mile 962 End Location: Mile 978 End Location GPS: 38.04699, -119.54115 A lot of climbing today. We planned on 20 miles again but the climbs and snow (ugh, still) slowed us down. Even though the views continue to be overly impressive, I’m kind of getting tired of

June 25, 2016 Miles Hiked: 20 Start Location: Mile 942 End Location; Mile 962 End Location GPS: 38.01415, -119.41521 Last night kind of sucked at the campground. For some reason unknown to me, a group of 6 Japanese people decided to stroll into our campsite at 11 PM and set up their tents right next

June 24th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 16 Start Location: Mile 927 End Location: Mile 943 End Location GPS: 37.87241, -119.35353 We woke early and made our way over Donahue pass at just over 11k feet. There was a bit of snow and some cross country travel and route finding but it wasn’t very difficult.  After the

June 23rd, 2016 Miles Hiked: 16 Start Location: Mile 911 End Location: Mile 927 End Location GPS: 37.74939, -119.22006 Pretty uneventful 16 miles, although we did let ourselves sleep in. We followed the valley for a while and then started back up again. Near the end of the day we rounded a series of neat

June 22nd, 2016 Miles Hiked: 5 Start Location: Reds Meadow End Location: Mile 911 End Location GPS: 37.65339, -119.07978 We woke up after another pleasent night’s rest in the VIP suite not knowing whether we should spend another night in town or get back to the trail. We are meeting up with my sister Gina

June 21st, 2016 Zero Day in Mammoth Lakes Laundry. Grocery shopping. McDonalds. Library. Home Cooked Pasta. What more could you want?

June 20th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 17 Start Location: Mile 890 End Location: Reds Meadow Mile 907 End Location GPS: 37.61270, -119.07978 Easy day going mostly downhill to Reds Meadow, a small general store and restaurant where you can also pick up a shuttle to Mammoth Lakes. There were a lot of day tourists milling about

June 19th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 13 Start Location: Vermillion Valley Resort End Location: Mile 890 End Location GPS: 37.50134, -118.92419 We caught the “ferry” out of VVR, a small motor boat that carries 5 hikers across the mirror like surface of Lake Edison. We got started hiking around 9:30 and the goal for the day

June 18th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 19 Start Location: Mile 864 End Location: Vermillion Valley Resort End Location GPS: 37.37646, -119.01302 We were up again before sunrise to get an early start on our way to Vermillion Valley Resort. We opted to take the longer alternate instead of the ferry because we were afraid we wouldn’t