She finally started posting her experience on a blog. This is the page where they start: https://teeheekittytits.wordpress.com/2015/09/
I came across it in a web search as I was researching possibly trying my hand at this trail this spring. However, she is only doing a few entries a month and only has 12 out of 39? posted so far since September. I wish she’d used the dates she hiked for the entries instead of the date she posted to the website. Not knowing the actual date of the experience removes some of the context for those trying to get trail beta out of it.
That said, there is a lot that one can learn from her journal. Learn what not to do that is. ;-) A lot of self inflicted problems such as throwing an inflatable pad at a thorny bush. But other then cussing like a sailor, she shows great determination to plow through and overcome.
The one part that I least understand is that she boiled water for drinking for much of the southern part after forgetting to bring Iodine. Talk about having to carry a lot of fuel. Instead of requesting more fuel be delivered like she did, I’d have asked for some Aqua Mira be sent at the next food drop. It use to be you couldn’t find Aqua Mira in a store in California. But recently, I’ve been seeing it at REI, so I wonder when that changed.
