My pack is heavy. Heavy heavy. With seven days worthy of food and seven(ish) litres of water, up around the 25kg mark heavy. I figured coming out of Tehachapi with the equivalent of a small human on my back mightn’t be the easiest, so I started hiking early and left Thibaud asleep. The Mohave Desert … Continue reading Day Forty Two: 898.9 – 923.7km
I hate that a ‘zero day’ is called a zero day. Generally, I spend so much of it running errands, resupplying food and trying to catch up on sleep I feel more tired than when I just have to walk twenty miles. Which is how today went. I woke up feeling refreshed and alive. Heading … Continue reading Day Forty One: ZERO
The alarm was set for 2AM. 2AM. Holy mooooley. And after having three days off, I was 100% NOT looking forward to getting back into this. But, the desert is brutal, and the aqua duct even more so, so, we had to beat the sun. A group of us left at 3AM, straggling and altogether … Continue reading Day Thirty Nine: 833.0 – 870.6km
