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Day 4 | Mile 32.6 – 42.6
Into the town of Mt. Laguna today! I saw the first snow on trail, but it was just a small patch. The desert shrubbery gave way to a tall pine forest (oh the wonderful smells!) as I climbed to over 6000′ elevation. ⇠ Previous Day Next Day ⇢
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Day 3 | Mile 20 – 32.6
Water is flowing! I crossed over Kitchen Creek in the morning, and kept my feet dry. I saw an egg, but didn’t collect it since it’s not Easter just yet. It has been incredibly beautiful, but also incredibly windy. In the evening, we saw SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites. ⇠ Previous Day
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Day 2 | Mile 14.0 – Mile 20.0
I got an easy quick 6 miles in before the afternoon showers. I enjoyed beautiful views of Morena Reservoir before descending down into Lake Morena County Park for the evening. We saw many other hikers camped out, making use of the quarter showers (which were either ice cold or burning hot), restrooms, and Malt Shop
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DAY 4 @ The Big Island, Hawai’i
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park I’d been looking forward to the day when we visited Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, and today was that day! It’s the 37th national park I’ve visited, and all the waiting was worth it – it’s one of the most beautiful parks I’ve seen. Immediately after parking, we saw several nēnē up
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DAY 2 @ The Big Island, Hawai’i
Our plan for Hawai’i was the same as it is for our other travels – prior to arriving, we used Google Maps to save all the points of interest we had come across. Each day we decide what we want to do for the following day based on how far we feel like driving, the
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Days 10 & 11 | Arizona Trail
Zero Days #2 & #3 Vail, Arizona After we arrived in our second trail town, Vail, Arizona, we decided to take a double zero for Tom to ice his persistent knee injury. We caught a ride back to Tucson, AZ to rest up in an affordable hotel. After two days, there was no change, and
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Day 9 | Arizona Trail
Mile 97 – 111.9 Today we pushed through open fields with more and more cacti as we approached the trail town of Vail, Arizona. It was a long day, especially for Tom, who has been struggling with a knee injury. We plan to rest up before moving on into Saguaro National Park in the next
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Day 8 | Arizona Trail
Mile 82.1 – 97 The weather has been a little bit of everything. Sometime hot, sometimes cool, breezy, still, dry, rainy. We searched an searched for a great campsite, but this section of trail has been both incredibly rocky, and filled with cow pies. We finally decided on an area covered with cow pies, and
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Day 6 | Arizona Trail
Mile 52.4 – 67.2 The Arizona desert has been stunning! A lot of people may just picture endless flat sand, but the trail is anything but that. We still haven’t had any long water carries, despite hiking in the desert. We’ve had a lot of water crossings, and a lot of interesting water sources, most
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Day 7 | Arizona Trail
Mile 67.2 – 82.1 The day was rocky, with over 2,500 feet of elevation gain, and over 2,000 feet of elevation loss. Kentucky Camp Ghost Town After a long day, we reached a small building with running water. It was Kentucky Camp, a ghost town. The camp host let us stay the night inside, which