Author Archives: bucketonthetrail

Joy here. I finally heard from Ron and Kendra. They made it to Big Bear area, where a Motel 6 was waiting for them! The first thing they did was Continue Reading →

Joy here. End of the 3rd week on the trail for Ron and Kendra. Still no phone service, but I did receive a text from their Garmin late last night, Continue Reading →

Hello, Joy here. I haven’t heard from the hikers since Wednesday, but I do get the Garmin GPS notifications periodically, so I can see they are still on the move. Continue Reading →

Bucket here – Kendra and I completed the 27.5 miles of trail over the past 3 days since we entered Idyllwild earlier.  We are at trail mile 179.4. We had 3500 Continue Reading →

Thank you to everyone who is following this website and providing comments. We appreciate it. I find that it is difficult to make postings on the trail – between loss Continue Reading →

Bucket here – we got off trail at mile 151.8.  A trail angel gave us a ride 15 miles into town and Joy made reservations for us at the Silver Pines Continue Reading →

Hello, this is Joy. Ron and Kendra really enjoyed the Mountain Valley Retreat. First, Ron said it was a godsend, getting them out of some very nasty weather. They picked Continue Reading →

Greetings! Bucket – here. I apologize for not providing more posts and I’ll try to improve! Today we were able to pack up our tents before rain hit, but it Continue Reading →

This is Joy. As the hikers are progressing, cell service is getting more sparse and getting into any towns is getting spread out as well. Hence, the delay of any Continue Reading →

Today was a relatively short day. We arrived here at the Laguna Mountain Lodge at2:15 pm after an 8.9 mile hike. Water was not a problem on this stretch. We Continue Reading →