Hello Everyone, I am still at Camp 7, but today I will call it Camp 8, since it is my eighth day on this leg of the trek. I only trekked 3.6 miles today, a record low. But, it was only to walk the 1.8 miles to the only store to get some food. There …
Author: tafstek
Canada Day 7
Hello Everyone, Here I am at Camp 7, the Crescent Creek Cottages & RV Park and I am happy. I only trekked 6.8 miles today, and I am ok with it! Yesterday day was a real challenge and I went to bed surround by everything being wet. I was fortunate that I still had one …
Canada Day 6
Hello Everyone, Here I am at Camp 6, on Highway 58 at Odell Road, which is just a dirt forest service road. I trekked 15.33 miles today, but it could be more as I have no service and the mileage may not have recorded. Today was a wild day and one of my most challenging …
Canada Day 5
Hello Everyone, Here I am at Camp 5, about three miles north of Chemult, right at the junction of NFD 94 (National Forest road). I had an interesting day and trekked 16.08 miles today. I actually woke to the sun shinning in my tent this morning, an usual thing since there has been so much …
Canada Day 4
Hello Everyone, Here I am at Camp 4, about one miles from the junction of Highway 138, the road to Crater Lake. I had a long day and trekked 17.23 miles. The morning was cold and I had wanted to get an early start, but the temperature was around 29 degrees and I didn't want …
Canada Day 3
Hello Everyone, Well, here I am at Camp 3, in the middle of nowhere without any real point of reference. I only trekked 12.73 miles today. I am somewhere off of Highway 97, 12.73 north of Collins State Park. Had a very interesting day today, and had something happen that surprised me and left me …
Canada Day 2
Hello Everyone, I made it to Camp 2, which is right at the entrance of Collins State Park, but on National Forest land. I trekked 14.58 miles today and it is was a little challenging all day due to the weather. It rain most of the night and stopped around seven and the tent and …
Canada Day 1
Hello Everyone, Well here I am at Camp 1 north of Klamath Falls, near Modoc Point. I trekked 15.15 miles today, which isn't bad for my first shake down day. Had a hard time deciding last night whether to start today. It wasn't until about ten last night when my brother Tom asked if he …
Canada Prologue
Hello Everyone, Well here I am again writing about the continuation of my trek, Leg 3. As you may remember, I began my trek last year at my home in Santa Paula and trekked to Klamath Falls, Oregon. I trek over 760 miles total in two legs. The first leg was about 360 miles and …
Oregon Day 28 & 29
Hello Everyone, I made it home yesterday, Thursday, October 2, and figured I would send out my last blog update for this leg of my trek. I took the train from Klamath Falls, Oregon, to Oxnard, leaving Wednesday night (October 1) at 10:00 PM and getting into Oxnard, Thursday, at 7:00 PM. It turned out …