HIKE DIARY
Backpacking & thru-hiking
is not always blissful
peeps of the PCT: Benita, Idyllwild Innkeeper
Historic Silver Pines Lodge has seen its share of “Hiker Trash,” but the innkeeper says it’s enriching.
GUEST POST: The Yellow School Bus by Joyce Morehouse
My mother makes an appearance sharing a tiny vignette, a clue to my hiking passion.
Blissful (Bionic) Hiker
Arthritis runs in my genes and this fall, I’ll have both of my hips replaced with artificial ones.
peeps of the PCT: Bob, Hiker Town
It’s a long 18-mile stretch in desert to Hiker Town, one of the oddest places I slept along the PCT.
The Kekekabic
The Kekekabic is a remote and rugged 41-mile long trail through the Boundary Waters Wilderness.
IRNP, Day 9 Lane Cove to Rock Harbor, 7.7 miles
It’s a rewind of the trail out of Lane Cove to Rock Harbor where the wind delays the plane.
IRNP, Day 8 Moskey Basin to Lane Cove, 10.8 miles
The trail heads up to Mount Ojibwe then down into forest to a remote cove.
IRNP, Day 7 McCargoe Cove to Moskey Basin, 9.8 miles
Passing Chickenbone and Ritchie Lakes to Moskey, I’m attacked by leeches, then see otters at sunset.
IRNP Day 6, Todd Harbor to McCargoe Cove, 6.2 miles
It’s a short walk to the cove through lightening, thunder and a downpour.
IRNP Day 5, South Lake Desor to Todd Harbor, 11.6 miles
The Minong Ridge meanders through dams, birches then to a stunning campsite facing Canada.
IRNP, Day 4 Siskiwit Bay to South Lake Desor, 9.8 miles
Carnelian beach is slow through overgrowth and wetland, then it’s over Mount Desor to a lake.
IRNP, Day 3, Feldtmann Lake to Siskiwit Bay, 10.2 miles
The walk to a view is fogged in, but Blissful is rewarded with thousands of dew-covered spider webs.
