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Getting Acclimated
We awake to a quickly warming sun and the sounds of a babbling Creek nearby. We spent our first night at the Lone Pine Campground (6000 ft) (campsites best by reserved via http://www.Recreation.gov). This campground is just outside of town, … Continue reading
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Road Trip’n
As all best laid plans go, they are mere suggestions. In our ernest to get outta dodge by 1000, it turned into noon, and could have been later had we just not said “screw it”, let’s go. “Short” trips are … Continue reading
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It’s a matter of Altitude
So off we set on another adventure, to summit Mt. Whitney…the tallest mountain in the lower 48. While the trip will a “short” one, (a “mere” 40.7 miles or so) the significance of this particular adventure will combine two of … Continue reading
Home Stretch
* Apologies for delay in the final post for this trip. Home life sorta gets in the way and things get complicated…hence the draw for hiking long trails. At 0615am Paul’s phone rings. What? Why is his phone ringing? I … Continue reading
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Tahoe Rim Trial -Barker Pass to Tahoe City
Lessons Learned: A flat mattress weighs more than a patch kit. If you are smelly and dirty, you become invisible. Ice Cold Beer is proof God loves us! Within minutes of bedding down, Paul’s mattress goes flat. We search … Continue reading
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Tahoe Rim Trail – Fontanillis Lake to Barker Pass
Lessons Learned: PCT hikers (by this point) are walking machines! Often it is easier to get into a lake than out of one. The Desolation Wilderness is NOT desolate! We awoke to find, pleasantly, that we had not been … Continue reading
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Tahoe Rim Trail – Echo Lake to Fontanillis Lake
Lessons Learned: As long as the scary sounds don’t come in the tent…everything will be fine. You can get used to icy cold water bathing. Going up a size and a half in shoe size would have been a better … Continue reading
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Tahoe Rim Trail – Big Meadows to Echo Lake
Lessons Learned: You can walk faster than mosquitoes can fly…but they will eventually catch up There is no such thing as “too much” food for one sitting…when thru-hiking. Sometimes “rules” can’t help but be broken. We (Paul) set the alarm … Continue reading
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Tahoe Rim Trail – Monument Peak to Big Meadows
Lessons learned. 1. Higher elevations are definitely cooler. 2. There is no such thing as having a meadow to yourselves. 3. Math is important. While the evening was definitely cooler than we had previously experienced, bedding down on a soft … Continue reading
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Tahoe Rim Trail – South Camp Peak to Monument Peak
Lesson(s) learned. When hands and fingers are not completely sanitary, DO NOT rub your eyes (one, let alone both!). Thusly I awoke this morning looking like I was the loser in a boxing match…simply FUGLY! I could barely see. If … Continue reading
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