Only a few days before, I convinced Cordis to spend Thanksgiving caching water across the desert so we could attempt Lowest to Highest the following day. The...
In Nov 2022 Abby and Cordis attempt to complete the grueling ~130 mile L2H in under 53 hours.
Haha that sounds amazing, do you have any pictures from it? Your friend sounds like a trip, I’m not sure I have the mental fortitude to walk through all those states like that, that is something else. Holy crap, you roadwalked from Whitney to Walker Pass? Socially your PCT SOBO sounds like my CDT SOBO. After seeing dozens of people in Glacier, a handful in the Bob and a half dozen in Anaconda I only met 2 other SOBO thrus in the next 2000 miles… I did pass by like 100 NOBOs in the Winds though, that was cool. They were friendly but looked so tired… one of them complained non-stop about Colorado’s thunderstorms and snow and blowdowns and mosquitos. One of them loaned me a knife to perform surgery on one of my shoes which was rubbing on my Achilles… Yeah, SoCal is pretty easy, especially for you after all that you’d been through.
Yeah, I got a fair number of pictures. I’m not great about being an on-trail photog, I kinda remember to do it in fits and bursts. Maybe I’ll get a pixelfed or something and share a gallery here, I have an instagram that I am hesistant about dropping because I haven’t posted on for like 6 years and don’t necessarily want to totally dox myself.
He’s a nut in the best way, he carries a half gallon milk jug with just his pinky finger as his main water bottle.
Yeah, lone pine to walker wasn’t crazy hard, its like 80 miles, only one turn, not too too much traffic, the road up to it isn’t very steep, and I didn’t have to carry 12L of water haha. I think I banged it out in like 2/2.5 days or so, definitely podcasting kinda days though.
The thru hiker camaraderie is so much fun, which years did you hike?
I’ll get a pixelfed or something and share a gallery here
is that the standard way to share images here? i’m not sure i’ve seen an image gallery yet on lemmy
haha that roadwalk sounds rough. i definitely know the way from Walker Pass to Kennedy Meadows South, as I traversed between there 3 different times last year, twice by hitchhike and once by trail. My shoes died unexpectedly early on the way out of Hiker Heaven and I had some shipped to me in Tehachapi but they were delayed, and instead of get stuck in town I hobbled to Walker Pass, hitched to KMS, bought shoes in KMS, hiked SOBO back to Walker Pass, then hitched back to Tehachapi, then hitched to KMS. It… was exhausting and stupid lol but I didn’t want to stop. I kept going and had a blast but burned myself out by South Lake Tahoe and made it as far as Sierra City before calling it. I was trying to hike cheap and fast and it worked but i learned that i just don’t have the mental and physical toughness that some folks do, which was a tough pill to swallow. that desert has a stark beauty to it though, and i’m trying to figure out how to get back out there.
I’m honestly not sure what, if anything is the standard operating procedure is for galleries. I just thought pixelfed because I’ve heard about it around lemmy, and its also part of the fediverse. I wasn’t a huge poster on reddit, so I never made an imgur account.
That’s a big oof from me on the shoes, I can understand though, had a pair of shoes where the toe of the upper fully came off. leading them to occasionally catch the ground if I shuffle stepped too much, and then they’d bend off my foot and flap back and pinch me. sucked so bad and I wore them for close to 2 weeks before I could get the logistics in order to get new ones.
I hope you can get back out there sometime! Lassen on up thru the cascades is all killer no filler!
It’s hard to find the right hiking partner from off trail life, but most of the sections where I was able to hike hardest and fastest without burning out were ones where I had a partner who was like minded.
I’m honestly not sure what, if anything is the standard operating procedure is for galleries.
this seems to be the case, i’ve searched around and only found other people asking the same question. it does seem that you can post images inline in posts, but i guess links to images after the first image don’t work? let me try 2 images and see what it looks like:
Its a little clunky in Jerboa, since it doesn’t seem like you can fullscreen or zoom in on the pics. I might check it out on desktop and make a new post in the next couple days with a handful of pics, and recycle some of what I wrote here into a late trip report haha.
Ah ok, I’m on desktop and iOS. Interestingly, this thread is displayed significantly differently on desktop, and apps Memmy and Thunder. Nested comments are chopped off on the apps and I don’t see the images on them though they show up on desktop. Guess it’s early days still.
Haha that sounds amazing, do you have any pictures from it? Your friend sounds like a trip, I’m not sure I have the mental fortitude to walk through all those states like that, that is something else. Holy crap, you roadwalked from Whitney to Walker Pass? Socially your PCT SOBO sounds like my CDT SOBO. After seeing dozens of people in Glacier, a handful in the Bob and a half dozen in Anaconda I only met 2 other SOBO thrus in the next 2000 miles… I did pass by like 100 NOBOs in the Winds though, that was cool. They were friendly but looked so tired… one of them complained non-stop about Colorado’s thunderstorms and snow and blowdowns and mosquitos. One of them loaned me a knife to perform surgery on one of my shoes which was rubbing on my Achilles… Yeah, SoCal is pretty easy, especially for you after all that you’d been through.
Yeah, I got a fair number of pictures. I’m not great about being an on-trail photog, I kinda remember to do it in fits and bursts. Maybe I’ll get a pixelfed or something and share a gallery here, I have an instagram that I am hesistant about dropping because I haven’t posted on for like 6 years and don’t necessarily want to totally dox myself.
He’s a nut in the best way, he carries a half gallon milk jug with just his pinky finger as his main water bottle.
Yeah, lone pine to walker wasn’t crazy hard, its like 80 miles, only one turn, not too too much traffic, the road up to it isn’t very steep, and I didn’t have to carry 12L of water haha. I think I banged it out in like 2/2.5 days or so, definitely podcasting kinda days though.
The thru hiker camaraderie is so much fun, which years did you hike?
is that the standard way to share images here? i’m not sure i’ve seen an image gallery yet on lemmy
haha that roadwalk sounds rough. i definitely know the way from Walker Pass to Kennedy Meadows South, as I traversed between there 3 different times last year, twice by hitchhike and once by trail. My shoes died unexpectedly early on the way out of Hiker Heaven and I had some shipped to me in Tehachapi but they were delayed, and instead of get stuck in town I hobbled to Walker Pass, hitched to KMS, bought shoes in KMS, hiked SOBO back to Walker Pass, then hitched back to Tehachapi, then hitched to KMS. It… was exhausting and stupid lol but I didn’t want to stop. I kept going and had a blast but burned myself out by South Lake Tahoe and made it as far as Sierra City before calling it. I was trying to hike cheap and fast and it worked but i learned that i just don’t have the mental and physical toughness that some folks do, which was a tough pill to swallow. that desert has a stark beauty to it though, and i’m trying to figure out how to get back out there.
I’m honestly not sure what, if anything is the standard operating procedure is for galleries. I just thought pixelfed because I’ve heard about it around lemmy, and its also part of the fediverse. I wasn’t a huge poster on reddit, so I never made an imgur account.
That’s a big oof from me on the shoes, I can understand though, had a pair of shoes where the toe of the upper fully came off. leading them to occasionally catch the ground if I shuffle stepped too much, and then they’d bend off my foot and flap back and pinch me. sucked so bad and I wore them for close to 2 weeks before I could get the logistics in order to get new ones.
I hope you can get back out there sometime! Lassen on up thru the cascades is all killer no filler!
It’s hard to find the right hiking partner from off trail life, but most of the sections where I was able to hike hardest and fastest without burning out were ones where I had a partner who was like minded.
this seems to be the case, i’ve searched around and only found other people asking the same question. it does seem that you can post images inline in posts, but i guess links to images after the first image don’t work? let me try 2 images and see what it looks like:
Its a little clunky in Jerboa, since it doesn’t seem like you can fullscreen or zoom in on the pics. I might check it out on desktop and make a new post in the next couple days with a handful of pics, and recycle some of what I wrote here into a late trip report haha.
Ah ok, I’m on desktop and iOS. Interestingly, this thread is displayed significantly differently on desktop, and apps Memmy and Thunder. Nested comments are chopped off on the apps and I don’t see the images on them though they show up on desktop. Guess it’s early days still.
This is what I see on here. Definitely early days still