Day 99 Miles: 35* From Beegum Creek to Hell’s Gate Waking up is crawling out of a deep black hole. “Where am I?” I think groggily. “Oh yeah. Sleeping in my underwear under a bridge.” Where else would I be? Team Whiskers is well rested and ready to ride today. We’re at the part of…

Day 97 Miles: 29* From Red Bluff to the shoe tree Sometimes you just need to sleep on it, and then in the morning you know what to do. 3D seems just as lost this morning as last night. She wants to come to the coast, but she’s not going to ride the passes on…

Day 98 Miles: 11* From the shoe tree to Beegum Creek The night turned into a surprising and blessed cool one, and at the cusp of dawn, breeze across my face, it is perfect. Perfect for sleeping. Man, I do not want to get up. We need to get started soon though, because we need…

Day 96 Miles: 75* *bicycle miles From Chester, CA to Red Bluff, CA I hear Pacman and 3D rustling around next to me in the gray dawn. I’m comfortable and warm on the floor of the dentist’s carport, but today is day zero. I crawl out of my quilt and start packing up. J bought…

Day 95 Miles: 0 Chester, California Today’s the day to decide: where to from here? Am I really going to pedal blaze the PCT? I think so. This interruption in my thru-hike comes at such a strange time. Exactly halfway. Halfway to where? To an imaginary line drawn a long time ago? To a little…

Day 94 Miles: 0 Chester, California I don’t sleep well in towns. Too much going on, too many lights, the internet. I stayed up too late trawling the web and convincing myself that I have Plantar fasciitis. I wake up earlier than the past week, exhausted, restless. We’re sleeping in the church backyard and services…