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Our original plan was to hike out in late afternoon. However,especially Bigfoot wanted to stay for another night,so we agreed upon leaving early Tuesday instead. The Andersons’ Casa de Luna really did live up to its reputation to be the hardest place to leave on the whole trail! I used the unexpected extra [...] Sleeping in after an exhausting day felt really good. I finally managed to get out of my tent when the rising sun started to turn it into an oven. For breakfast,Joe Anderson was serving delicious pancakes to all hikers. What a great start into a zero day! We had decided to stay at least [...] Bigfoot left at sunrise trying to outrun the expected heat. Stanimal and I were ready to go at 7:50 a.m. There were no natural water sources for 25 miles between Agua Dulce and Green Valley. We had left Hiker Heaven with 4 liters of water per person and had to go 3 more miles to [...] I had always wondered how many calories the huge amount of food would contain that we ate day in day out on the trail. So before repackaging yesterday’s purchase,I did the math and came up with a whopping 73,000 calories for 16 days (this equals about 4,500 calories per day). They say that a [...] After a much needed sleep in,I spend the morning taking pictures of Hiker Heaven and doing resupply planning both for the upcoming leg of the trail to Tehachapi and the first part of the High Sierra starting at Kennedy Meadows. We had to mail food ahead because there would be no sufficient resupply options [...] Because the weather report was still not good for Mount Baden-Powell,Wendi agreed to host us one more day. While she was preparing waffles and fresh fruits for breakfast (yummy!),her dad came over. He is a retired fire fighter,so it was very interesting talking to him about the various wild fires in the [...] The weather had unexpectedly turned for the worse during the night. Bigfoot was forced to set up his tarp in the middle of the night to stay dry in his bivy. I awoke to dense fog and continuing rain,but fortunately stayed dry inside my tent. We decided to wait and see if it would [...] It was time to hit the trail again. I was sure that my shin splints had sufficiently healed. After an early wake up,the unpopular task of cleaning up the gear explosion all over the garage had to be completed. At 9 a.m. we were finally finished and loaded our packs and the bounce boxes [...] To give my shin splints more time to heal,we decided to stay another day in Wrightwood. Bernie and Keith extended their hospitality for another night which we were very grateful for. I continued working on my trail journal,sorting photos and making some more phone calls. Additionally we discussed the details of the upcoming [...] After breakfast Mary gave us a ride back to Wrightwood. On the way we stopped at Stater Bros. in Phelan where we could resupply for the next leg of the trail cheaper and easier than in Wrightwood. With bags full of food,we squeezed ourselves back into the car. A few minutes later,Mary dropped [...] | ||||
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