May 4, 2016

Even with the late night I was still up at 5:30am. The priorities for the morning were making sure enough food had in fact been purchased in the rush the night before

The morning was fairly uneventful as each of us was just focused on finishing up the dry section. We all met up around 9:00am at a ranger station that not only had water but also

We had a somewhat disjoint morning with Loopy up and out pretty early, we the Three Bears out a bit later, and Raptor out an hour after us having decided to treat herself to a hot

The alarm on my watch once again failed to go off audibly until 45 minutes after it had been set so we got a late start around 7:00am.

The morning was uneventful until we stopped

The morning was a scattered mix of packing, showering, eating, charging, and random phone calls before we finally had it together enough to figure out a ride back to the trail. A trail angel and her

Our first planned zero day began with a trip to the Evergreen Cafe and quite a spread of food. Then off to the post office to grab packages. Finally back to the hotel to have laundry

The plan was to wake up at 5:00am and either get going or go back to sleep depending on whether it was still raining or not. It was not raining so we began packing up.

April 28

4:00am hit and I woke Rickets to begin our 22 mile trek to food. You can only be so quiet when packing up and the five of us were packed pretty closely. Raptor

April 27

No hail this morning so that was nice. Unfortunately, camping next to a stream always means dew and in this case that meant ice on all the tents. It was another fast pack up

April 26

I took a gamble and lost big time. I hadn't set up my tarp yet on the trip and even though the weather forecast had been questionable I decided to cowboy camp again. At