cyberhobo

It feels like we’re really sinking into late summer and soaking up all we can. While huge fires blaze to the north, we settle in at the big meadow campground and try not to twitch too much as campers chop wood and fill the air with smoke. Bliss comes in the mornings as cooler days…

In what may be our first “hike night”, we pick John up from the Reno Collective and hike to the Hunter creek falls. There’s still a bit of smoke visible high in the sky, but the temperature and breeze are about as blissful as they come. At the falls See what happens when you take…

Ann invites Jenn & Johnny on a little 6 mile hike that somehow ends up closer to ten. We all seem to agree that more is better in this case. We find some sulphur shelf mushrooms – my first batch in the Sierras, and a big one! Round Lake Sulphur shelf mushrooms Afterward we wish…

Ann and I enjoy our return to multipitch climbing at Lover’s Leap, rising at 5 am to catch Knapsack Crack 5.5 and Harvey’s Wallbangers Center 5.6 before the merciless sun hits them. We didn’t want to fuss with cameras on the rock, but I got a photo of Ann getting ready before sunrise: Up at…

I set out running nice and slow this morning, thinking I’d just see how far I can go. The answer is about 14 miles before my legs refuse to continue, not bad. But I didn’t turn around early enough, so I had to walk another 5 miles home!

Two weeks of backpacking didn’t totally ruin my running fitness, but I do feel sluggish! My body holds up pretty well through the first 7 miles before my calves and hamstrings start to tighten up. Not too bad – seems like a few more runs will get me back to my pre-hike condition.

Our last day on the TRT is a doosie – 19 miles packed with ridges, peaks, and localized storms all around. We’ve noticed that bears seem to like chewing up the many plastic Tahoe Rim Trail signs, but this one takes the polymer cake. Bear-eaten trail sign After raucous lightning storms before dawn, the weather…