4/26/19 Mileage: 15 215.5 miles hiked We want to hike the miles we missed when we hitched into Forest Lakes Estates to catch the store before it closed, but how? Should we hitch back to the trailhead where we bailed? That seems hard to conceptualize, for some reason, while I drink my drip coffee in … Continue reading Mogollon Rim Trail day 17: porch couch

4/25/19 Mileage: zero We wake in the morning in our dumpy motel room, microwave water for our respective coffee and tea and are faced with the same conundrum we had last night- how do we do our laundry? The motel has no laundry and the nearest laundromat is a 15 mile hitch away. We make … Continue reading Mogollon Rim Trail day 16: the magic cabin of Forest Lakes Estates

4/24/19 Mileage: 11.5 200.5 miles hiked It rains a little all night, or is it dripping, I wake up to pee and the air is cold, damp, I sleep again tangled in my bag, have anxiety dreams about my dogs- they're at a party. They're drinking too much. How will I get them home? Breakfast … Continue reading Mogollon Rim Trail day 15: thorn

4/23/19 Mileage: 19 189 miles hiked All night the sound of the wind and the rushing water in the creek. Suffusing my dreams with a sense of urgency. And a need to pee. We wake at dawn to find our tent is full of spiders. We slept with the mesh unzipped and now, for some … Continue reading Mogollon rim trail day 14: spiders

4/22/19 Mileage: 18 170 miles hiked 6 miles into our day the Arizona trail leaves the Highline trail, and we stay on the Highline trail. In our 18 miles on the AZT we didn't see any AZT hikers, but we did see lots of footprints. We wave goodbye to the nice tread, the campsites, and … Continue reading Mogollon Rim Trail day 13: burn

Did you know that Muffy is blogging every day from the MRT too? And she's a really good writer! Muffy's blog is here- muffyjdavis.com Muffy and I have so many posts from the Mogollon Rim Trail written, just waiting to go up! We're putting them up together as we reach fundraising goals🤓 The fundraiser for … Continue reading Muffy’s Blog

4/21/19 Mileage: 12 152 miles hiked It's noon by the time we make it back to the trailhead. We had to lay in bed this morning, make out, pack everything, shit in a toilet one last time, and then of course we had to eat at taco bell. After eating we had to sit in … Continue reading Mogollon Rim Trail day 12: the highline trail/AZT

4/20/19 Mileage: zero Muffy and I stay up late talking about... everything and I wake at 5, when the first light is leaking through the curtains. I make us coffee in the hotel room coffee maker and we eat instant oatmeal, feeling gloriously alive. My feet still feel like swollen, painful stumps, but otherwise I … Continue reading MRT day 11: Alfonso’s burns down

4/19/19 Mileage: 17.5 140 miles hiked The ponderosa forest is perfectly still and cold, the stars bright, the moon so full it feels warm, there isn't one drop of condensation. We're warm and cozy, I've never felt anything as comfortable as my neo air. We wake at dawn to turkeys gobbling in the distance. My … Continue reading Mogollon Rim Trail day 10: our feet r beat

4/18/19 Mileage: 14.5 122.5 miles hiked I wake up in the dark, my bag wet with dew. Frost glitters in the moonlight. I'm cold. I cinch the hood of my sleeping bag, bringing its warming powers up to level 10 and curl on my side, thinking about the dark busted cabin we're camped next to. … Continue reading Mogollon Rim Trail day 9: wherein Clear Creek Canyon is incredible and kicks our asses