Day 22 | June 5, 2025
We walk to the Ragged Point Inn, pick up our boxes, and treat ourselves to breakfast at the café.
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Day 20 | June 3, 2025
We leave the town of Morro Bay and enter a new chapter: the beach section, with sandy shores and stretches of highway weaving through small coastal towns. I’ve been looking forward to this part of the Condor Trail; the plants, the animals, the terrain will all be new to me.
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Day 14 | May 28, 2025
We leave Motel 6 feeling slightly better. The rest was good, my feet especially needed it, but the existential questions still hang in the air. Why are we doing this? Not just this trail, this day, or this next section, but the whole thing. The blisters, the hunger, the inability to actually hike on a "trail" that’s often more concept than reality. The impenetrable poison oak. All of it.
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Day 7 | May 21, 2025
I rinse my socks and shorts in some leftover water. My shorts are baggy now, stretched out and worn. We drink the Coca-Cola from our resupply buckets for breakfast and pack up.
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Day 1 | May 15th, 2025
7.5 miles
It’s the kind of place you might miss if you blink, but the downtown stretch of Piru has a quiet charm; sun-bleached signs, peaceful streets, and a handwritten blackboard outside a little restaurant called Nikki’s Casamia Restaurant & Catering that reads “Open” and “Pupusas.”
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May 9th, 2025
The Condor Trail starts long before the first step. Today, the journey begins on the 5 Freeway, heading north. Two hikers, two separate cars, and four five-gallon buckets of food and supplies.
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Day 1 | September 11th, 2023
The morning was filled with eager anticipation, excitement, and a stressful hustle to catch an early flight from Burbank to Redmond, Oregon.
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Day 5 | September 15th, 2023
We hiked along two-track roads, followed animal trails through fields of clasping pepperweed, and dealt with numerous barbed wire gates.
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Day 10 | September 20th, 2023
Throughout the night, the neighbors kept us awake with a cacophony of strange, intermittent noises that resembled the starting and stopping of engines, without any discernible purpose.
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Day 14 | September 24th, 2023
Intense winds persisted throughout the night, which, coupled with the buzz from soda, beer, and Gatorade, did not lead to a restful sleep.
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Day 19| September 29th, 2023
The day began with a sunrise that rivaled the beauty of the previous evening's sunset.
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Day 23 | October 3rd, 2023
The damp morning set the tone for our hike as we left the South Steens Campground and made our way along the Big Indian Gorge Trail into the heart of the Steens Mountain Wilderness.
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Day 27 | October 7th, 2023
The sunshine and warm, clear weather welcomed us to the Pueblo Mountains.
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DAY 29 | OCTOBER 9TH, 2023
The day began at the Denio Junction Hotel with breakfast burritos. As we fueled up for the day ahead, the weather predictions loomed over us – a mix of rain, snow, and winds ranging between 20-40 mph.
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Day 33 | October 13th, 2023
We had a late start, leaving the hotel at 11:30 am with heavy packs containing six days' worth of food. Our clothes, still damp from the sink wash, added unnecessary weight.
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Day 39 | October 19th, 2023
We ordered breakfast at the diner in Rome Station, then took our meals and resupply boxes outside to the deck to organize and pack.
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Day 1|March 22, 2022
12 miles
After a seven-hour drive to Tucson, a night at a hotel, and a couple of hours unpacking and repacking my backpack, I was finally ready to hike.
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Day 5 | March 26, 2022
21.5 Miles
My body felt clean and refreshed when I woke up, and Aladdin and I hiked out of town after breakfast.
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Day 9 | March 30, 2022
16.5 Miles
We entered Saguaro National Park and spent most of the day climbing up and over the Rincon Mountains.
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