Tahoe Rim Trail Day 6 - I tracked my mileage and steps closely as I progressed along the trail today. Highlights included trail magic, a break to dip my toes, ice water from a gas station in Tahoe City, and an amazingly beautiful campsite! Across the valley one of the ski resorts is having a concert. The music travels shockingly far, but the tunes are kind of nice. For dinner I had dal with rice. I think that’s the second time I ate it on this trip, so I souped it up with some ramen noodles. Yum

The Tahoe Rim Trail includes stretches where the only water source is a low-flowing spring. This is how I turn a leaf into a faucet. #water #thruhike #spring #nature #watersource #backpacking #camping #thirsty #hack | Thruhikers

I hung on to all of my garbage while walking the Tahoe Rim Trail in order to figure out just how much trash I generate over 7 days of backpacking. It was surprisingly little, even though I packaged two of my meals in Mylar bags, which are much heavier than our usual ziplocks. On our long thruhikes we generate even less trash. For these, we re-use the ziplocks we ship our dinners in for breakfast and lunch bags later. At home, we minimize consumption and recycle everything possible, but our weekl