Category Archives: Life on the Trail

Slightly more than a month on the trail! Here’s the numbers: Lizards: more than a billionHorny Toads: manyRattlesnakes: 4Other snakes (including an outstanding pink and grey specimen): about 100.Coyotes: 1Fox: 1Miles: slightly more than 400Pairs of shoes: all still working on our first pairs of Altras!Average miles per day: 16 (includes first week of lowContinue reading “WEEK FOUR: DAYS TWENTY SIX THROUGH THIRTY FOUR (May 24 through June 1st)”

*ish. Apparently I can’t hike and count at the same time. Monday, May 17th: Going down, down, down and yet more down hill from Fuller Ridge. The first 3-4 miles were lovely–we looked down on the clouds coming in to the mountain valley. And then, long, hot, low grade switchbacks (practically wheelchair accessible grades, saidContinue reading “WEEK THREE: DAYS SEVENTEEN THROUGH TWENTY FIVE (May 17 through May 23)*”

*WEEK-ISH Thursday, May 6th: We started from Sunrise Trailhead about 9am–late–and already getting warm. Got to Rodriquez Road and took an extra mile to get down to the spring–a beautiful little trickle from a pipe under an oak tree, surrounded by lupine. We took refuge from the heat there for about 90 minutes, only toContinue reading “WEEK TWO*: DAYS EIGHT THROUGH SIXTEEN (May 6th through May 16th)”