Date: 9/6/18 Miles: 16.4 Total Miles: 85.2 Returning somewhere that holds a special space in your memory can go one of two ways—either the anticipation proves too great for the reality to live up to the recollection or the memory is renewed and reaffirmed. Today was most certainly the latter. The Desolation Wilderness is a…
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The End of Newdle-palooza
Date: 9/5/18 Miles: 17.3 Total Miles: 68.8 Little did I know how close we were. Our hammock spot last night was a mere few hundred yards from the junction of where the Tahoe Rim Trail joins the Pacific Crest Trail for a 50-mile stretch through the mountains along the west side of Lake Tahoe. Moments…
Evolution
Date: 9/4/18 Miles: 17.4 Total Miles: 51.5 It took me a moment to recognize what I was looking at. Scattered flecks of grey and white were sprinkled on my hammock as I went to turn in last night, and it was then I realized that the smoke hanging on the horizon that had given us…
California’s Playground
Date: 9/3/18 Miles: 17.1 Total Miles: 34.1 Before today had even begun, yesterday quite literally ended with a thud. The thud in this case was the sound of me smacking into the ground neck first as my hammock came unmoored from its webbing on one end while I was lying in it. The ground beneath…
The Land of Dust and Fire
Date: 9/2/18 Miles: 17.0 Total Miles: 17.0 The shade of blue hadn’t changed at all. From high above and through a scrim of smoky haze, the sapphire hue of Lake Tahoe was no less brilliant than when I had last seen it two years ago while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. Only this time, Emily…
