Big Basin Rim Trail

This trip report is being generated because I have had about half-a-dozen emails from BPLers about some of my routes that I use to train on in the Santa Cruz area (of California) and how I train for long continuous days of hiking. Since I teach at a college, during the summer months I have the opportunity to schedule in long training days only if I am home by 5:30 pm and have dinner ready (when my wife and kids arrive). Now that I have a good physical conditioning base to work off, I will start doing multi-day, continuous hiking of 30+ miles per day. If this is of interest to you I recommend that you see Mark Davis’ JMT fastpack trip report. I always use a 20-lb pack, I always shoot for about a 3.5 mile/hr pace and the plan is about 150 to 170 miles per week over the next two weeks.

The first of these day hikes is the Big Basin Rim Trail. The link is

http://www.cabrillo.edu/~cfigueroa/Trip_Reports/Big_Basin/Big_Basin.html