May 12, 2016

2:00am arrived and we began packing and chugging last liters of water before starting on the 43 mile dry stretch. We were on trail just before 3:00am and began our first

May 11, 2016

Everyone slept like a rock on the soft grass finally out of the wind and we slept in until 6:00am. The morning was a cool beautiful walk through pine forest to the

May 10, 2016

Our plan had been to get up at 4:30am and push for a longer day. The alarm went off and there was an immediate, unanimous, unspoken decision to sleep another half hour.

May 9, 2016

We all woke up to Chris's alarm to make it to the post post office back in Tahachepi. We all immediately went back to sleep. Hunger finally triumphed over the comforts of mattresses,

May 8, 2016

Every 20 minutes for the entire night a huge gust of wind would rush down, kicking up dust and sand and threatening to topple tarps and tents. This, as you might imagine, made

May 7, 2016

Today we crossed the stretch known as The Death March. It's a 17 mile stretch through the Mojave desert along the LA aqueduct with no water, no shade, and no landscape changes. Usually

May 6, 2016

The fog from the night before had mostly lifted when we got up. It was another morning of spread out hiking for the most part; bunching up and talking for a bit and

May 5, 2016

Rickets was right. The rest of us woke to rain at 1:30am. We went to back to sleep after each covering ourselves in some sense (Eeyore with a rain fly next to