LOST, Legends of Superior Trail connecting the town of Superior with the Arizona Trail. Waiting on some mail so I’m just going to walk it back and forth for a couple of days and cowboy camp under the stars watching the Big Dipper circle around the North Star. #AZT #cowboycamping
Category: Hiking Journal
Hitchhiking into Mesa, AZ
Caught a windy hitch into Mesa with some chicken feed in the bed of a pick-up truck. Avoiding the storm. #AZT #hitchhiking
Four Peaks Wilderness, AZT
Beautiful trail, a little snow, water filter breakdown, bears? But good fortune says the cookie, so I rested easy. Despite the storm warning. #AZT #hiking #sobo
Freezing on the AZT
Good morning Arizona Trail! A bit frosty on Passage 21, my shoes are frozen solid after several river crossings and leaving them out all night. Sycamore Creek was thigh deep. Might just mean trying out my gortex socks until the shoes thaw out. #AZT #hiking #sobo
Lil Wes, or the Little Western Route
This is Lil Wes, or the Little Western Route, a series of trails I put together in the hopes of having a year-round hiking route. #hiking #thruhike #hikertrash
San Jacinto Cowboy Camping
What a fantastic night! Hiked the PCT partway up San Jacinto, not as far as I’d hoped but I had a painful blister from the hole in my toe socks. I’d drained some of it yesterday morning but it came back with a vengeance. I cowboy camped 150 ft west of the water faucet off […]
Windmill Farm Stealth Camping
I managed to get to the Metrolink Station to catch the last bus towards Cabazon. From the Morongo Casino I walked back to the PCT and what I hoped would be a warmer stretch of trail. Only it was so late and I was limping from a few newly formed blisters that I didn’t exactly […]
PCT Stealth Camping Location Ruined
East of Cabazon, CA on the PCT Watching trains of double stacked cargo containers roll by, each one filling the horizon from right to left. All the way. Windmills on the hills and 4.5 miles to go before a campsite. It’s not even 9 am and I have been sitting here for a while enjoying […]
Frozen on the PCT
My first night on the Pacific Crest Trail was also one of the coldest that I had ever put my sleep system through. Because I only have a 40 liter backpack I am limited in what I can pack. That means a sleeping bag that can pack down into a small, tight bundle. Literally a […]
Freezing on the PCT
I wasn’t trying to outdo or even replicate Trauma and Pepper who had done a winter traverse of the PCT the year before. I was just early. And I had nowhere else to go. Last night was the coldest I have ever had with this sleep system. This 40 degree F summer bag. All in […]