Melanie is not actually hiking with me, she is supporting me so we don't have to bury caches again.
To follow my actual progress once I start hiking, go to Melanie's Garmin Mapshare page. I'll be posting my position once every 10 minutes. That may change. I'm using her Inreach Mini 2 as it has MUCH better battery life:
You can't send messages to the MapShare page or Locate. Contact via phone.
On a Mobile device, to see planned route click on the 'i' (bottom right corner) & choose 'View Desktop Version'
Yeti's Progress
For Blog Posts of this hike go to:
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For Photos of this hike go to:
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For More Information go to our site:
You can get to both sites ABOVE from the Main Site
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Visit Yeti's Un-Official Desert Trail Site. There is a lot of informatioh here so feel free to browse around. Buck-30 wrote the Intro. There is a free Desert Trail Town Guide you can download if you care to:
Visit Yeti's Un-Official DT Site
If we do a Trailjournals.com blog, it will be here. Otherwise, here is Melanie's attempt of the Oregon section of the Desert Trail in 2022 after my injury & having to quit:
Trailjournals Blog
Yeti will start March 5, 2024 in order to get through Death Valley & the southern Nevada desert before it gets too hot.
This hike should take close to five months due to 55% of the trail up to Hwy 20 in Oregon has NO TRAIL at all, It requires bushwacking the 55%. The other 45% is made up of existing trails, forest service roads & some highway or back road hiking.
There are several places Melanie can meet Yeti where the trail crosses highways & roads to give Yeti water, food, etc. Also, where necessary, take Yeti to town for rest, re-supply, etc.
Yeti should finish in late July if all goes as planned.
At the end of each day of posting on Garmin Mapshare page, Yeti will try to send a message that he is in camp & safe.
Click on the 'Follow Yeti & Melanie', etc Icon and it will 'FLY' to Yeti's current location and zoom in there. The two hiker icon will be at that location with the latest co-ordinates and the current message written more often by Melanie or Yeti if he has time and is with Melanie so he has an internet connection.
When scrolling around, if you click on any of the waypoints or tracks the comments will open to give you any information that is in the waypoint or track. Tracks are harder to select but will tell you what that section is if red. Blue tracks are alternates. None of the tracks shown are 'Ground Checked' which means they are only approximate and 55% of the trail is bushwacking all the way to Highway 20 in Oregon. After that it is trails and roads the rest of the way.