Daily diary

A pretty uneventful day. Five miles of fairly easy hiking in good weather. Nice but not photo-worthy views.  Arrived at […]

The wind overnight was extremely strong and loud, to the point that even with earplugs in I had trouble sleeping.

Not many views today,  trees in the way. Finally around 3pm there was one exposed rock with a wide view.

I’ve been setting my alarm about 3 minutes earlier each day so that I continue to wake up as close

Overnight it was milder so I slept well. I hit the trail at 7:45. The first stop was High Rock

It was another cold night. Naturally I thought to eat some walnuts to fire up my internal combustion engine, but

I slept quite well in my upper bunk.  It helped that we had linens and didn’t have to use our

The night was cold but inside the tent it stayed dry.  I wore almost all my clothes to bed and

It was chilly overnight and there was a lot of condensation in the tent, probably because it was so misty.

Both Ed and I woke around 6:30 a.m. even though there was no need to wake up until at least