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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
  • I’m perched on the crest tonight. Smoky orange sky. #
  • Laying in the shade drinking water–I’ve been doing a lot of that lately. #
  • You know what would be cool? Some way to hike recumbently, for when your feet get tired. #
  • There was a resturant at Donner Pass, I was hoping to get breakfast at this morning but it wasn’t open. #
  • If I quit laying in the shade and get hiking I may be able to make breakfast in Sierra City tomorrow. #

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Monday, July 7th, 2008
  • Hey from mile 1127. It’s really smoky. Rumor is there is a fire up ahead. #
  • The trail has been really crowded with day hikers and section hikers and lots of dogs. #
  • I saw two golden bears a couple of hours ago. I started singing and they looked up at me and then ran away. #
  • Someone told me that the PCT may be closed up ahead because of fire. I guess i’ll keep hiking until I see a closed sign. #
  • Very red sunrise this morning. #
  • If I had a hot beverage and lots of time I would watch it for awhile longer. But no stove or time. Better get hiking. #
  • NPR news is obsessed with war and suicide bombers, year after year. #
  • I want “Car Talk” and “this American Life”. #

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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
  • I’m at Echo Lake. I have done all my resupplying and box sending. I have eaten. I want a nap. #
  • I’m at Echo Lake. I have done all my resupplying and box sending. I have eaten. I want a nap. #

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Friday, July 4th, 2008
  • Hey from a “sagebrush saddle”. It’s windy but the view is great, so I think I spend the night here. #
  • Yesterday, future PCT thru-hiker, Jeff, was serving food and beverages to hikers at Sonora Pass. That was a nice treat. #
  • Tommorrow, at Carson Pass there is a thru-hiker BBQ, I heard. I should be able to make it. #
  • I have been dragging lately. I think it may be because I didn’t send myself any ginko in my last package. #
  • Soon I’ll be at Echo Lake were I have more ginko bilbo in my box. Then I will be hiking better, I hope. #
  • It’s really windy up here. I probally should have hiked down off the crest. But the view the thing. #
  • I slept here last time too. It was windy then. #
  • There are still patches of snow on the trail. I want to be done with the snow. #
  • I hope the BBQ will be enough motivation to get me down the trail tomorrow. #
  • Time to try to get some sleep while these crazy wind gust blow around me. Goodnight. #

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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
  • Hey from Tuolumne Meadows–mile 941. Long day to get here. It’s dark and I can’t find the backpacker’s site. #
  • I’m laying in a vacant site I found. #
  • The Sierras have been tedious and tiresome. #
  • On Forester Pass I lost my shoe when I postholed but I managed to dig it out. #
  • I almost lost my shoe in the deep mud today. #
  • I don’t think the Sierra’s are worth the effort, this time of year. Maybe if that is all you were doing. #
  • I’m not really in to all this “potentially fatal” stuff. Most of it is behind me now. . #
  • I hiked from 5am till 9:30pm and only took 1 hour total in breaks. #
  • I have been seeing more hikers lately. #
  • I better go to sleep now. Goodnight. #
  • I packed up and got out of that camp site because I believe the rules are: you don’t have to pay if they don’t see you. #
  • Waiting for the Tuolumne Meadows store and grill to open. It’s a big tent. #
  • I have eaten lots of fresh cherries and drank 3 Odwalla superfood drinks. #
  • They gave me my package even though it’s Sunday. I’m ready to go. #

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Friday, June 20th, 2008
  • I have finished shopping for my resupply. I’m carrying 14,260 calories for the next 150 mile section #
  • It all fits in my bear canister. #
  • For a zero day I have walked a lot. Town stops aren’t very relaxing. #
  • I had a dream where a tree said it wanted to talk to me but I couldn’t stop because I had more miles to hike. #
  • Then I thought, “Hey, how many times do you meet a talking tree? Maybe you’re too into the miles”. #
  • But then the next morning I thought,”You better get some extra miles in, so in case you meet a talking tree you will have time to stop a … #
  • You know how much 10 tortillas cost in this town? 5.79. I think driving may be cheaper than walking. #
  • I’m all packed up. My pack is big and doesn’t look like a neat little package. #
  • Once my resupply box was opened and my pack emptied, the motel room was crowded with stuff. Now everything is packed away. #
  • I’m waiting for the post office to open so I can mail my bounce box along. Town stops eat up so much time. #
  • It’s getting really hot. I’m not to excited about today. #
  • I wish I could figure out a good way to hike without having to get anything in the mail. #
  • I feel sick but once I get back on the trail, I know I’ll feel fine. #
  • Okay, everything is mailed. Now to pick up that beast of a pack and try to hitch back to the trail. Hope my new shirt helps. #
  • Standing in the hot sun waiting for a ride. #
  • I found some bi-focal sunglasses. Now I can read a map without changing glasses. #

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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
  • Hey from Lone Pine(mile745). #
  • I’m laying in a motel eating fruit. My clothes are in the wash and I have retreived my stuff from the post office. #
  • I need to keep working to get my town chores done but I’m feeling the town melt and getting sleepy. #
  • I have been moving all day. If this were a hiking day I would have got a lot of miles in. #
  • My clothes have been resoaked in permethrin–renewing my cone of death. #
  • I have packaged my backpack up and have it ready to mail off for repair and I have received my other pack in the mail. #
  • I have bought a new lavender Mountain Hardwear canyon shirt in hopes that my new improved look will attract a ride back to the trailhead. #
  • I’m tired. I’ll get out tomorrow but probably not first thing tomorrow. #
  • I had just done enough. 30 mile days to pay off that zero day I took in Idywilld and now I’m behind again. #

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Friday, June 13th, 2008
  • Hey from mile 567. Made it in and out of Tehachapi. Hardest hitch ever. #
  • Forecast: hot and getting hotter. Sitting out my days in the shade and hiking when it’s cool. #

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Monday, June 9th, 2008
  • Hey from somewhere around 480 miles. #
  • I should be hiking but I want to go to sleep. #
  • I’m up high. There are lots of lights below me–LA sprawl, I think. #
  • I’m too sleepy. Good night. #
  • This morning I believe I was awaken by the voice of a mountain lion and it’s that belief that got me hiking by 3am. #
  • I have been searchin for a seista spot since 10:30 but the flys won’t let me sleep. #

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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
  • I’m not really into hiking tonight. Ithink I would like to put up my tent, take two benedryls and call it a day. #
  • It’s a pretty morning with sunshine and lot”s of birds. I’m so happy I got out of town even if I didn’t do a lot of miles. #
  • Time to get hiking after along sleep. #
  • If you mix Cal-Mag Fiz with your electorate-protein drink it will make a fizzing exploding baking soda bomb. Not recommend. #
  • There was still some snow on Baden-Powell to navigate around. I think I’m out of all the snow now until the Sierras. #

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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
  • Hey from Wrightwood–mile 369.5 #
  • I got new socks; my feet are thrilled. #
  • I’m really dirty. It’s really windy. I’m melting. It would be so easy to stay; I must be strong. #
  • Again I’m in town durring my siesta time. I’m so sleepy I can’t think. #
  • The forecast is calling for 50 mile an hour winds. #
  • I think the crack in my lip is infected. Some hot water and soap would do it some good. #

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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
  • Hey from Cajon Pass (mile 342) I’m really sleepy. It’s time for my seista #

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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
  • It’s too early to quit but the sunset is too beautiful to pass up so I’m taking a sunset break. #
  • For hiking two hours last night and all day today, I have only gained 15 trail miles because of the stupid reroute #
  • It was a hard and fustrating day but I’m feeling better now. #
  • All day I have had motor bikes and buggies dusting me. I’m glad to be back on the PCT. #

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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
  • Laying down on another ridge with my feet up and eating cookies. I’m going to have to hike late if I want to get my miles in. #

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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
  • My feet are burning. #
  • I made it in to Big Bear. It was a hard hitch I think because there was another hiker with me. #
  • Eating chicken and drinking oj. Then a quick resupply and back to the trail. #
  • I finally made it out of Big Bear. I got a pity ride from a nice couple who weren’t going my way but took me any way #
  • Never have so many cars passed by my smiling face and out stretched thumb. I hope I’m not losing my touch. #
  • Sitting on a ridge eating cookies and sugar peas. It’s my reward for getting out of Big Bear. #
  • How often do you find yourself on a high ridge, in the shade, with a good view, and big rock to elevate your feet on? So nice. , #
  • No more laying around on mountaintops, time to get hiking. #

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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
  • Sitting on the trail looking down on the city lights. I’m in my bag but I’m telling myself that this is just a break. #
  • I think I should hike on and find a better spot. Last time I slept by sharp rocks I woke to. 850 fill down flying around me. #
  • At 4 o’clock I could see where I wanted to be. It’s now 11:30 and I still haven’t got there. An insane person designed this section. #
  • Goodnight from a few miles short of where I thought I’d be. #

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