Unfortunately the cough did not get better overnight and moreover I also got a sore throat and my voice did not sound too good. Oh well. I have some medicine from back home but once I am in town I definitely need to get more stuff. I took an ibuprofen as well and prayed I…

This morning I could finally sleep in again (read till 7am) but once I got up I wasn’t feeling that great. The cough that started yesterday has gotten a bit worse but luckily no sore throat so hopefully it’ll go away soon. For breakfast we enjoyed some really good waffles Donie made us and then…

I woke up with a cough. Awesome. Stefi has been coughing for days and now I got it too. Hopefully it won’t get worse. We packed everything and got going because today we had to get to Sierra City where a trail angel – Donie – would pick us up and then we would stay…

Luckily the night has gotten colder than expected and the wind also calmed down. We got up at 6:15am and enjoyed the sun already shining above the horizon. We packed our stuff and hiked out at 7am. It was around 7 miles (11.2km) to the Donner Ski Ranch where we planned on having some good…

This morning we could sleep a whole hour longer! Wow. Since we decided to stay at the trailhead we got some yummy pancakes in the morning and a coffee. Totally worth it. Afterwards it was time to hike out. The terrain today was supposedly to be more up and down because we were going through…

Today we had an early start again because we wanted to escape the heat as always. The night at the lake was super calm and wind free so at least we got a good sleep. In the morning we walked along couple of other lakes that we could also admire from above once we finished…

Since me and Stefi had to go to the post office today that would open at noon, we decided to sleep a bit longer (till 7am!) and have a slow morning. The others including Ann and Lorenz went back on trail already in the morning. We will probably meet them in a couple of days…

Just like the past days, also today we started hiking at 6am. I was still a little bit tired because last night was super windy. At 2:50am my tent collapsed on me so I had to pack it and cowboy camp. Also the morning was super chilly so I didn’t want to leave my quilt.…

Last night I slept pretty good again but well one or two hours more would have been nice. I woke up shortly at 2am because coyotes started howling. That was cool. As planned today was to be one of the longest yet so we started at 6am and with some smaller breaks continued till our…

We woke up already at 5:15am because today we planned on doing a big mileage – anything between 25-30miles (40-48km). By 6am we were back on trail and picked up our pace. It was getting warm pretty quickly but the terrain wasn’t too bad and we would mostly be under the trees anyway so I…