Category: OCT

I was lulled to sleep last night by the ocean waves about 100 feet from my stealth hammock site. In rainy weather this site is certainly a swamp and there is standing water at...

Last night Tom, Angie, Dave and I had some great conversations around dinner. We were the only people in the Hiker/Biker camp area so we all sat around a picnic table and chatted. Dave...

Last night, as I looked through what I had to do today, I realized that I needed to get around Five Mile Point at low tide. It was close to 14 miles south of...

Last night, as I lay in my hammock, trying to get to sleep with the sounds of generators and conversations all around me, I was wondering why I am doing this trail. Then at...

I was walking by 6:15 this morning. I had about 8 miles of beach between me and Ten Mile Creek, another of those “ford at low tide or else” streams. I was on target...

Today was supposed to be an easy day. Get up late, have a leisurely breakfast, saunter down to the beach, and walk 8 miles to the Umpqua River. There I would call Winchester Bay...