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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • 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:







  • 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.





  • 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.







  • woof, was looking at the elevation profile on L2H (click the red line and click “Profile”) and realized the first 14 miles from Badwater to Telescope Ridge in Death Valley NP are a deal breaker as I don’t reasonably think I can do 10k elevation gain in a day… did several thousand feet less on my biggest day on the PCT which I was in shape for and took a nap and I was still exhausted the next day. love the area and it feels… slightly uncomfortable to realize I’d be out of my league.