Mileage: zero
Day three: Tendonitis of doom
Cibbets Camground to Mt. Laguna Mileage 10.8 Mile 33 to mile 43
Day 2- Lake Morena to Cibbets Campground
Mileage 13 Mile 20 to mile 33
Day 1- Campo to Lake Morena
Mileage 20 Mile 0 to mile 20
The baby squirrel
Last night a baby squirrel wandered into our camp. The squirrel was cold and dehydrated and I emptied the soap from my tiny dr. Bronners bottle so that I could feed it drops of warm salt water. Finn and I wrapped the squirrel in a towel and it slept in the footbox of my sleeping … Continue reading The baby squirrel
At the portland airport
And my heart is breaking re: dogs. Finished getting ready at 3:30 a.m. and slept a whole hour. Woke to Cooper's headlights flooding the trailer. Small dogs were confused, these little creatures who want only to be near me. And I am a little creature who wants only to be near them. At the airport … Continue reading At the portland airport
So exhausted. So close.
It's 1:26 in the morning; Cooper gets here at 5 a.m. to drive me (generous friend!) to the airport for my flight to LA. My list is black with pencil slashes and I'm almost done with everything I need to do; no sleep for me on this last night before the wilderness. Still I won't … Continue reading So exhausted. So close.
Preparing for the PCT: Resupply boxes FTW
I leave in three days. Three days. On Saturday morning I get on a plane to LA, hang out with Finn for the day, and then Sunday I start the hike, in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the desert, way down at the bottom of California, which is unfathomable. I won't be … Continue reading Preparing for the PCT: Resupply boxes FTW
stop trying not to feel it
A.M. posted something about time being the golden spiral that was posted by someone else and I thought Yeah, I know! I thought of that once, that time was shaped like the golden spiral, and I felt kind of angry like I had thought of it first, spontaneously and on my own, like I should’ve … Continue reading stop trying not to feel it
Preparing for the PCT: The big three (final version)
I've been doing that thing every night where you go into a trance staring at your computer looking at gear trying to figure out the exact combination of things that will somehow transcend all of your anticipated hardship and the right before three a.m. when the screen starts to go blurry you just buy some … Continue reading Preparing for the PCT: The big three (final version)
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