Buck30 - Desert Trail Journal - 2019
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Brian (Buck-30)
Begins: Apr 3, 2019
Direction: Northbound
Daily Summary
Date: Sat, Jan 6th, 2024
Start: Myrtle Beach
End: Myrtle Beach
Daily Distance: 0
Trip Distance: 2,038.0
Journal Stats
Entry Visits: 452
Journal Visits: 44,338
Guestbook Views: 738
Guestbook Entrys: 25
2023 Updates
2023 updates!
I was getting error messages trying to add this to my main Planning entry so I'll just add updates here:
--Gerald and Anke in 2023 cached no food or water! They had a very wet Spring, but honestly in California this doesn't really matter that much, there isn't a lot of "new" water in a wet year. They are just super hard core and carried on average 8-10 liters at a time! They also hitched into a few places (notably Death Valley) just to get water. This was a very impressive feat. Not recommended for most hikers, they are very experienced and seem to effortessly carry the weight. They proved it can be done!
https://geraldtrekkt.blogspot.com/2023/12/der-desert-trail-zusammenfassung-und.html
--The Northern Nevada/Oregon mapsets are probably difficult/impossible to still get, but Steve has actually gone out to hike these sections and wrote the additional/final guidebooks which is awesome! The Death Valley guidebook by Huxtable is also out of print and I believe Steve has now written his own guidebook for that too.
--The DTA has been dissolved and no longer exists.
