Day 19: The Mesa Wind Farm and Whitewater Preserve

April 9, 2018 209.5-218.5 Waking up in the resort hotel, it was day 19 on the trail for me and I was craving a late morning. Unfortunately, our bodies were well-accustomed to early risings and we all naturally woke around 5:30am.  We packed up, I lanced a particularly large and painful blister and doctored itContinue reading “Day 19: The Mesa Wind Farm and Whitewater Preserve”

Day 18: Down, down, down into the Desert

April 8, 2018 193-209.5 The next day we continued hiking down the mountain back into the hot, flat desert toward Interstate 10, where we hoped to hitch into Cabazon. This is not a typical hiker stop or resupply point mainly because it’s along a major freeway and is not an easy hitch, but Ghosthiker hadContinue reading “Day 18: Down, down, down into the Desert”