Dec 19, 2018 | Oregon Desert Trail
Day 24 Lakeview It would be hours before the sun rose, yet as the disciplined hikers we are, we donned headlamps and started on our way in the dark. It was hard to find the trail in the dark, but after a few minutes of scouting around, we were on our way. We climbed...
Nov 20, 2018 | Oregon Desert Trail
The wind blew pretty hard all night, I know because the damn foot pain woke me up a few too many times, as much as I need a good sleep to recover the pain is preventing it. Each night I wake within a pain like a knife Beijing shoved into the side of my foot, its so...
Nov 16, 2018 | Oregon Desert Trail
I woke pretty groggy from the lack of sleep the night before from all the foot pain. I decided to leave the KT tape off as my foot felt better without it and that is how I walked out of camp. The road we had finally found last night was still pretty overgrown, in...
Nov 14, 2018 | Oregon Desert Trail
Waking in a warm building was such a treat and having a flush toilet to use instead of digging a hole was just pure luxury this morning. We all packed up pretty quick it’s much easier to get going when the temp isn’t at freezing. We hit the road and headed for the...
Nov 8, 2018 | Oregon Desert Trail
We sat down yesterday in Frenchglen and did some math, the kind of math that as a kid I hated, word problems …”How many days to get to the end and not run out of time?” 350 miles roughly left, 12 days to hike means we have to hike 30 miles a day each day to...
Nov 7, 2018 | Oregon Desert Trail
Before first light we woke from our slumbers cold and stiff from the previous days slog into the night. The air was crisp and felt like fall, with all of our clothes on we walk out of the campground and then headedcross-countryy to find the “road” we were supposed to...
