On Friday, I spent 9.5 hours straight walking in order to finish the final section of the 63 mile long Backbone Trail in the Santa Monica Mountains. One could say that I am now tired from that. Between the 22.6 miles of actual trail plus another mile to the parking lot and another mile after that to get down the road to catch an Uber back to the car, it was a long ass day. At mile 18, I ran out of water unexpectedly even though I had refilled my 3L pack at mile 10. But thankfully I was well hydrated enough and still had a reserve 0.25L of gatorade left. Anyways, here are some photos from the day:
I will have to put together some thoughts on the entire 63 mile long trail. It was quite the experience and now I definitely want to do it again, but quicker. It took me 5 days doing it in sections but there is no reason that it couldnt be done in 3 without much more trouble. Would just need to do logistics to get back to the car each day. The sheer variety of environments on this trail is astounding and my photos simply do not do it justice.
