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 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 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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