May 25, 2018 00.0 The next morning I awoke around 4:00am and couldn’t get back to sleep because the AC was cranked up and I was freezing. It was chilly outside and Sparky and Ghosthiker were still sound asleep, so I grabbed my money and fleece pullover I’d had sent to me for the SierraContinue reading “Day 65: Heading Back to Lone Pine”
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Day 64: Farewell, Desert!
May 24, 2018 00.0 I finally got to enjoy a relatively slow morning at Scott and Jennifer’s before we set off for Ridgecrest. Saying goodbye the second time was even harder. I felt like I’d acquired a set of trail angel parents in addition to my current trail parents (and my real parents, whom thereContinue reading “Day 64: Farewell, Desert!”
Day 57: Back in Julian…Again
May 17, 2018 Roughly 220 miles due south by car. I woke up around 4:30am without the aid of an alarm. Ghosthiker and Sparky were still sleeping but I assumed they’d be awake any minute, so I quietly snuck into the bathroom. They still weren’t up when I came out so I grabbed my phoneContinue reading “Day 57: Back in Julian…Again”
Day 56: A Whirlwind Day
May 16, 2018 730.8-745.3 I woke while it was still dark (as usual) and went to retrieve my food bag from its tree and, lo and behold, there was my headlamp! I must have put it in my food bag on accident in my haste to put things away before crawling into the warmth ofContinue reading “Day 56: A Whirlwind Day”
Day 51: Leaving Ridgecrest
May 11, 2018 652.1-668.7 The next morning we took a bus back to Walker Pass. We saw Alias and several other hikers waiting at the trailhead to take the bus back into town. We were a little shocked by the cold that hit us as we stepped off the bus. Our days in Ridgecrest wereContinue reading “Day 51: Leaving Ridgecrest”
Day 50: The First Time I Owe Ghosthiker an Apology
May 10, 2018 00.0 That zero day was a strange one. Ever since the night before I’d been irritable and pissy, particularly with Ghosthiker, and not for any good reasons. It just seemed like everything she said was triggering me terribly. When we went to Walmart that afternoon I told them if they finished beforeContinue reading “Day 50: The First Time I Owe Ghosthiker an Apology”
Day 49: A Poolside View
May 9, 2018 643.8-652.1 Last night I was exhausted and fell asleep long before dark, so by 3am my body was done sleeping. I lay there looking at the stars and listening to the wind overhead that never rustled my tent and drifted in and out of sleep until about 4:15, at which point IContinue reading “Day 49: A Poolside View”
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