Daily Miles: 18 Total Miles: 379 It seems like we don’t need to even bother setting an alarm anymore...the turkeys do a fine job of waking us up. Although they seem to think we need to be up at 4:30am, which is entirely too early. In addition to … [Read more...]

Daily Miles: 20 Total Miles: 361 It turns out that when Mace took his tumble yesterday, he tweaked his knee. He woke up with pain in his knee, and took some ibuprofen. We just all kept our fingers crossed that it would be ok. The day started out … [Read more...]

Daily Miles: 14 Total Miles: 341 It was a good temperature last night, but it really cooled off by morning. We even had ice in our water bottles, so we know it got cold! Hopefully it doesn’t get any colder, as Mace’s 30 degree sleeping bag is … [Read more...]

Daily Miles: 20 Total Miles: 327 The turkeys were around this morning before we even got up, just gobbling away. As expected, it was a cold night and we were reluctant to get out of our sleeping bags. We all started off with an extra layer on and … [Read more...]

Daily Miles: 22 Total Miles: 307 We had a very relaxing day in Pinetop-Lakeside yesterday, getting some town tasks done and watching some episodes of Shameless. This morning, we went to the motel breakfast when they opened at 6am and filled our … [Read more...]

Daily Miles: 19 Total Miles: 287 Happy Birthday to Beardoh! It was chilly again when we started out. We seem to keep getting faster at packing up and we were on the trail by 6:10am. The trails today continued to be well-marked and … [Read more...]

Daily Miles: 19 Total Miles: 268 It got quite chilly overnight and we started hiking with our down jackets, wind pants and gloves. About 10 minutes into walking, we entered a wash where the temperature was probably at least ten degrees colder … [Read more...]