A trail life series
Leider gibt’s diesen Blog Eintrag nur in English. Danke für dein Verständnis. This is a long one – from Stratton in Maine to Katahdin. Finally, the trail for us smoothened out a little bit and ‚Soda‘ felt good again after taking Doxycycline for some days to treat the symptoms of Lyme-disease.
Leider gibt’s diesen Blog Eintrag nur in English. Danke für dein Verständnis. Skipping 50 miles gave us the possibility for some days of rest and checking how the antibiotics would effect Soda’s immune system. We made it up to Rangeley and stayed two nights at the wonderful ‚Farmhouse Inn‘ where they were well informed about…
Sorry, leider gibt’s diesen Blog Eintrag nur in English. Danke für dein Verständnis. Some time has passed by since the end of the Arizona Trail, 800 miles of gear testing on rugged terrain and along spikey bushes or cacti. Let’s talk gear for a minute. I started off on the PCT with a much different…
Sorry, leider gibt’s diesen Blog Eintrag nur in English. Danke für dein Verständnis. That’s it! Finito! Stateline Arizona/Utah reached on April 21st around noon. Though I am happy to be there it doesn’t feel as magical as the end of the PCT, not as epic or life-changing. Which is good haha, cause that much of…
Sorry, leider gibt’s diesen Blog Eintrag nur in English. Danke für dein Verständnis. Yes, you did read it right, Grand Canyon Village. That’s where the Arizona Trail leads to and not only to but also through the Grand Canyon whouhou. Just ~100 Miles north of Flagstaff the ground all of a sudden drops about 5000…
Sorry, leider gibt’s diesen Blog Eintrag nur in English. Danke für dein Verständnis. The first day of hiking after 3 zero days was pretty tough. My backpack didn’t fit me right, my legs hurt, shoulders hurt, back hurt…Everything was kinda meh. So you see even if you’re blessed with the best experiences, sometimes it’s hard…
Sorry, leider gibt’s diesen Blog Eintrag nur in English. Danke für dein Verständnis. Oh man, that was steep. After another day of hail at Roosevelt Lake, we climbed up and into the Four Peaks Wilderness, up and up and up all day long. At least after all that rain and hail, we knew water won’t…
We reached Kearny right in time for the Pioneer days on the weekend. The hotel there was fully booked but they had a grill-out and offered us rides to the RV park to shower. More or less clean we went on the fair and soaked in all these colorful lights and noises. I ate funnel cake for the first time as well as deep-fried twinkie. Suger sweet Suger.
After taking a last break at the High Jinks Ranch to fill up water and the check out the historical site, Marney of the Chalet Village Motel picked us up at the American Flag Trailhead.
Sorry, leider gibt’s diesen Blog Eintrag nur in English. Danke für dein Verständnis. Vail was only a 6-mile hike out from our last camp. The expected package though hasn’t arrived at the post office yet so we spent another night in Tucson, running errands and resupply.