I'm a week into my PCT trek, and only four and a half of those days have been spent hiking. I'm still trying to will this tendinitis away. Ice helped marginally, I just started rolling my foot on a cold water bottle/using my trekking pole as a massage rolling pin.. thing.. what do you even …
So my foot problem turned out to be probably tendonitis. I've had it before in my heel, but this is along the outside of my foot where I walk on which makes it exponentially more painful. That's a relief. I kept it on ice and elevated it a bit, so far so good. I got …
I woke up really early again, but opted to try and go back to sleep. My foot needs to rest as much as possible, and honestly I was hoping that the extra couple hours might magically heal it somehow. I rolled over on my crinkly inflatable sleeping pad and dozed off. This only lasted a …
I woke up and looked at my watch: 5:30. Woke up early once again. This wouldn't be as much of a problem if I weren't camped near other people, but not wanting to wake anyone at what may be described as a crazy hour, I sat in my tent for another hour and tapped at …
I woke up super early in the lodge. It seems I've lost the ability to really sleep in now, damn. I felt a little nauseous so all I could do was lay in bed and hope it went away. I laid like this for a couple hours until I decided to get up and get …
Continue reading Day 4 – Nothing Gained, Everything Ventured
I woke up at around 7:30, yay I slept in! Today was my first zero day. The prospect seemed weird to me, I don't have to work, I don't have to hike, I don't have a house or computer or house cleaning to do. So what does a person do? Buying groceries certainly won't take …
Why did I camp in Morena? Everything and everyone is so loud, the breeze from the lake is freezing! I couldn't sleep at all and it sucked. We were so packed in that I felt bad for even getting up to pee (If you're not on trail yet, you will know the horror of having …
I woke up to my alarm screaming at me at 5:30AM: "Get up! Get your gear! Get up!". Okay fine! Despite all the nerves and butterflies, I actually slept pretty well. Saying goodbye to the bed was a difficult moment for me. I took a shower and got all my stuff together. What should have …
Snappy headline! Bam! No I'm not passive aggressively going to rant about something vague that applies to no one. What I'm brushing off my shoulder is that I'm sitting here in my room for one last weekend. In seven days, I will be heading to Campo. Well, six by the time I post this probably. …
25 more days. 4 weeks. July somethingth, 2015: I found out about the PCT. From then to now, I have gone through so many attitude shifts and different states of mind about the whole thing, the final result is really just anticlimactic. There are a lot of words to describe how I feel about being …
The Limping Rabbit 