Day 48 Miles: 14 From Kennedy Meadows General Store back to the last crossing with the South Fork of the Kern I’m irritable and out of sorts. J is too. I want to get an early start, but the elusive pancake breakfast at the Grumpy Bear finally materializes, and we can’t pass up eggs, bacon,…

Day 47 Miles: zero Kennedy Meadows General Store June 17, 2014 The general store was closed when we arrived last night. The only bar/restaurant in town is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Details, details… should’ve brought a little more food… We find some pasta sides in the hiker box and cook up that. Definitely not…

Day 46 Miles: 20 From Fox Mill Spring to Kennedy Meadows General Store June 16, 2014 Twenty miles waiting for us – twenty miles to Kennedy Meadows. Kennedy Meadows is the official entry to the Sierras for the PCT, at least pyschologically. It’s our last chance to resupply before the real big hills, to pick…

Day 45 Miles: 19 From Joshua tree spring to Fox mill spring June 15, 2014 On the trail by 8:30 this morning – I woke up at first light but preferred my dreams to waking for a little longer. “Good morning J,” I sing. “Time to get up. Another night that we didn’t get eaten…

Day 44 Miles: 12 From walker pass to Joshua tree spring June 14, 2014 I was ostensibly planning on getting up early today, but even last night I knew that wasn’t going to happen. “We have to check out by eleven,” I think. “No rush.” And we don’t. We make it to the bus stop…

Day 43 Miles: zero Lake Isabella Just food shopping and world cup games today. We send a box of food ahead to Independence and resupply for the two and a half days to Kennedy Meadows. This town is kind of beat… not near enough teeth to go around… A fire starts in the evening, on…