July 11, 2026

My hike starts to today, but before I begin hiking , I’ll drive around Lake Tahoe and leave two food resupply boxes with local stores that hold boxes for hikers and drop three water caches where the trail meets a road. The resupply boxes break up my food carries into three manageable sections, and the water caches reduce the amount of water I have to carry on the dry east side of the lake. I’ll park at the Echo Lake Sno-Park, eat lunch, start hiking around noon.

So…I forgot it was Saturday and the traffic around the lake was crazy. I didn’t get to the snow park until 12:45 and didn’t start hiking until after 1pm. After hiking for about an hour I realized the navigation app I use, FarOut, wasn’t working. I thought I could wait until my first resupply in three days to fix it, but after getting confused and hiking four extra miles on trails that were not the Tahoe Rim Trail, I decided to find some cell service, delete the app, and download the app and trail information again. The process was slow, but eventually the app was working again and I made it to Showers Lake. Tomorrow is going to be a better day!

Thanks for following along!

Loren, AKA Butterfingers