Day 30 Miles: 12 May 31, 2014 From sulphur spring to the Mill Creek fire station to the Acton KOA Pushing miles always sounds good on the day I’m doing it, but I regret it the day after. Today’s the day after… We’re dragging, as usual, and the last ones out of the camping area….

Day 29 Miles: 24 From little Jimmy Spring to sulphur spring When our alarm goes off at the amazingly early hour of 7am, only one other hiker is left at little Jimmy campground. Apparently early has different definitions for different people. Gizmo and Dirtnap, bringing up the rear again. The trail today has a lot…

Day 28 Miles: 14 From Wrightwood to Little Jimmy Spring Camp I wake up and take another shower. Might as well start off clean for the next section. Don and Yvon feed us breakfast, then Yvon takes us to the store for a new fuel canister and then to the trailhead. Yvon explained last night…

Day 27 Miles: 7 I wake up and look outside the tarp – it’s the crack of dawn, cracking its way into my little blue home. Behind a screen of pines, the day breaks pink and gold, and J and I watch the sun rise with our heads still on our pillows. “So this is…

Day 26 Miles: 19 From a few miles from Cajon Pass to cool views above Wrightwood I don’t know why I bother setting the alarm. It’s a joke. I turned that sucker off and went back to bed. An hour and a half later and I regret it already – I’m overheated before even crawling…

Day 25 Miles: 20 From the Mojave Siphon Power Plant to a couple miles past Cajon Pass J’s Aunt Amy makes us a breakfast of veggie omelets, strawberries and toast. Back to trail food after this… J’s cousin Dan loads us up and whisks us back to the ugly power plant where he picked us…