BMT Day 5 Hell Canyon Here We Come!

FeMike showing off some of the foliage that hitched a ride during our very slow and rough bushwhack Cold Springs to PS Saddle Campground Miles Hiked 22.1, Elevation Gain 2,552’, Elevation Loss 2,221’ Today started with so much hope for easy hiking and trails, but alas...

BMT Day 3, Meeting a Trail Visionary

Start Upper Pine Lake End Fish Lake Trail Head Miles hiked 18.42, Elevation Gained 3,346′, Elevation Loss 4,222′ The Punisher coming down from Pine Lake on our way to meet Ron at Cornucopia Lodge We got up before first light and packed up and started down...
BMT Day 2, Will This Climb Ever End?

BMT Day 2, Will This Climb Ever End?

All smiles now that I’m here in the high country and done climbing Start Eagle Fork Horse Camp End Upper Pine Lake Miles Hiked 19.01 Miles Hiked, Elevation gain 4,347’, Elevation Loss 3,261’ We awoke early, man it felt great to get so much sleep the night...

Day 14 Denied in Denio…

Holy hell who threw the switch on the weather?  Yesterday was mostly cloudy and cool but my god this morning was downright frigid.  When I woke up it was well below freezing so much I fact that our water bladders and bottles had frozen.  Luckily we all slept with our...

Day 13, A 30 Mile Adventure

The day started like most up at dark, breakfast, and coffee and then each of us packing to get out at first light.  We had all slept great last night in the forest and since we had a lot of roads in our future we were ready to lay down some miles. We traversed around...

Day 12 The Oregon Mountains

We started off the day with one more meal at the Say When casino with Ron who agreed to cache our water 12 miles up the way so we didn’t have to carry it the full 45 miles to our next reliable source. We started out with about 8 miles on pavement we listed to the Joe...