We tried to sleep in a bit but of course that never works when you want it to. We walked over the the Red Kettle for breakfast and had a delicious, huge meal with lots of coffee for me. The outfitters was our next stop for a few things we needed to replace. More relaxing…More

I set my watch alarm for 5:30 and slept right through it. Luckily I woke up at 5:45 anyways. We were just about ready to go out of camp when our leapfrog friends went cruising by and said they’d see us later. We got hiking just a few minutes later to climb and climb and…More

0 miles Not having to tear down a tent and repack in the morning is so nice. Got brunch at Teddy Bear’s, hopped on the bus to Von’s for our resupply, and then over to Big 5 Sporting Goods to get stove fuel. Sat around the hotel room most of the day, eating snacks. After…More

13 miles Got up and out of camp by 7. Most of the hiking was downhill so we cruised through the miles pretty quickly. Leapfrogged with Sabrina and James and eventually got a hitch with them at Highway 18. Marie and I rode in the bed of the truck with all of the packs and…More

17 miles Got up early enough for some easy hiking in the morning. Most of today’s climb was done in the 11 miles before lunch and we had great weather for it. Not too hot, plenty of shady spots, and a slight breeze. At our water source around mile 4, we ran into FedEx again,…More

14 miles Not the last to leave camp this morning; small victories. Some climbing in the morning, but, even with the early start, it was still kinda hot. We dropped down to the first crossing of Mission Creek and took a break and filled water bottles. Honeybear and Pricepoint joined us after a bit. We…More

16 miles Last ones to leave camp, but we were joined by a girl from Twinsburg. One of her tent poles snapped in the wind last night, which would suck pretty bad. Thankfully, our tent has held up pretty well so far. However, it is on the larger side so we can’t use some of…More

22 miles Up and on trail by 6:30, we got water from an ice cold stream. We made up the few miles we had intended to do last night, and then started the descent. All day long we descended Fuller Ridge. It took us about 12 hours, including a 1.5 hour lunch break. The trail…More

6 miles Ate snacks in bed for breakfast. Repacked the bounce box and separated out the stuff we were sending home. Checked out of the Idyllwild Inn, hit the post office, grabbed final snacks from Nomad Adventures, and got a reuben at Red Kettle. We tried contacting one of the trail angels that shuttles hikers,…More

We were up early again because everyone camped around us was up and moving around 5:30 or something ridiculous. I think I just dislike camping in large groups of strangers. Everyone has their own ideas of appropriate camp behavior. Not a huge deal as I knew we would be in town by afternoon. Before that…More

We woke up with the sun just coming over the surrounding hills. It was forecasted to be much cooler today and we were also only five miles from a hot meal at Paradise Valley Cafe so we were fairly quick to get out of camp. Mist and clouds were blowing around us the entire way…More

A skunk got in a fight near our tent last night and it was windy again so no one got good sleep but we managed to wake up around 5:45 anyways. It was a beautiful, cool morning but we knew it was going to be hot again so we started hiking by 6:45. Our first…More

It was a rough one. We got on trail at 6:45 just a few minutes later than we had aimed for. Re-taping blisters and hot spots always takes longer than you think. It was still nice and cool when we started climbing out of the little oasis we were in. By 10 am I needed…More

It was hot again and we didn’t get started as early as we should have. It wasn’t too bad as we weren’t doing huge climbs in the morning and we were headed for our first break at a well shaded stream. The stream was nice, we stayed only for a bit because we needed to…More

We have passed the 100 mile marker! Yay! Before we did that though we had a long, hot hike out of the valley we camped in. Early in the hike I wasn’t really with it yet and thought Jake was walking back towards me on the trail. He was actually just doing a switchback, I…More

I was up early with an angry stomach, not great for heading back to trail. We decided to get mostly packed up and head to breakfast at the cafe again. While at breakfast my stomach was really unhappy and I was getting waves of nausea. I had a moment of feeling really frustrated with my…More

Lounging in bed until around 11 just felt right considering how rainy and cold it was outside. It’s rumored someone was eating chips in bed while they were waiting for someone else to get ready to go to breakfast. We made it to the Julian cafe for breakfast right before they stop serving it at…More

0 miles In the morning, we went to the post office to get our bounce box, dropped off our disgusting laundry, and then grabbed breakfast. I needed a new water filter so we went to Nomad Adventures to get some replacement gear. For lunch, we hit up the Idyllwild Brewpub for nachos and a giant…More

19 miles A big day! Got moving around 7:30. Climbed a bunch, climbed some more, ate ramen for lunch under a boulder, scrambled around a boulder, scrambled over downed trees, lots of downclimbing. Left the PCT and took the Devil’s Slide trail 2.5 miles down to the trailhead. We heard someone’s car chirp and thought, “Quick!…More

18 miles After tearing down camp, our first stop was to Paradise Valley Cafe. 5 miles on trail and then another mile to the cafe. Of course, I got the breakfast burrito and a tall glass of OJ. The place was abuzz with hikers milling about, filling water bottles from the spigot out front, eating,…More