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May 20th, 2022 by Jon We woke to the sound of wind, but thankfully, we camped in a nice, protected spot last night, so it really didn’t hit our tent at all. Singsong said the foam pad actually felt pretty comfortable last night, so we’re feeling less worried that it will be a miserable stretchContinue reading “Day 43: Mile 583.3 – 602.1”

May 19th, 2022 by Jon Well, the first thing you might notice is that the mileage seems off. That’s because we came in on one road to Tehachapi, but left on another. We skipped an 8-mile walk through the wind farm, where it follows a dirt road most of the way. We didn’t want toContinue reading “Day 42: Mile 566.5 – 583.3”

May 18th, 2022 by Jon Ah, the zero day. A day in which you purposely do as little as possible in order to rest. We haven’t had a zero day since Wrightwood, so we have been looking forward to this day for a while now. We slept till about 7:30 before wandering down to theContinue reading “Day 41: Zero in Tehachapi”

May 18th, 2022 by Jon We woke after another windy night, although it wasn’t quite as bad as the last 2 nights. Today was a town day, and we couldn’t wait to get a shower and a bed and out of the wind entirely. We packed up a little later than we usually do justContinue reading “Day 40: Mile 549.7 – 558.5”

May 16th, 2022 by Jon Well, we battled the wind all day today and all night last night. Our tent held up, but there were a couple of times it got so contorted that it got within inches of our faces or bodies, depending on how it twisted. Thankfully, all our stakes held, and theContinue reading “Day 39: Mile 534.9 – 549.7”

May 15th, 2022 by Jon Today we woke up around 7:00 with the goal of doing a lot of lounging in the shade to stay out of the heat. Tonight we hike the aqueduct! The L.A. aqueduct had an interesting and complicated history. If you haven’t ever heard of it, I encourage you to goContinue reading “Day 38: Mile 517.6 – 534.9”

The morning came swiftly with a 4:30 am alarm that rang in the dark. We packed up as quietly as we could and just had cold bars for breakfast. We were hiking in the Mojave today, and it was supposed to reach 90 degrees. Basically, every hiker was trying to get up early to tryContinue reading “Day 37: Mile 498.2 – 517.6”

May 13th, 2022 by Jon We woke up feeling pretty refreshed with another 20-mile day ahead of us. As we woke, we could hear lots of other hikers stirring around us. There were even more hikers who got in pretty late last night, and they had cowboy camped all over the place. With the weatherContinue reading “Day 36: Mile 478.2 – 498.2”

May 12th, 2022 by Jon I slept so well last night, maybe the best so far on trail. Maybe it was a little bit of the wine, but I woke up feeling really great and my feet felt ready for another day of hiking. Getting ready didn’t feel quite so bad this morning and weContinue reading “Day 35: Mile 458.6 – 478.2”

May 11th, 2022 by Jon We purposefully didn’t set an alarm last night to let ourselves sleep in a little bit. I still woke up around 5:45 or 6:00, but we stayed in our tent until almost 7:00, dozing a little bit. We got up and packed slowly; it was nice to take our timeContinue reading “Day 34: Mile 444.3 – 458.6”