Tag: California
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[Day 2] Pyro of the Panamints
![[Day 2] Pyro of the Panamints](https://jarodlyles.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/dsc09888.jpg)
The little pyro in me has had my eye on these mountains for a long time. I’m happy to say I find myself in the Panamints; something about this desolate, striated landscape captured my heart from boyhood. This short, rugged range forms the western wall of Death Valley and blockades Death Valley from Panamint Valley.…
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[Day 1] Badwater
![[Day 1] Badwater](https://jarodlyles.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DSC09674-scaled.jpg)
Wreakage. There isn’t a much better way to put it. The past eight months or so have be an unbeknownst betrayal of most everything I found on the trail. Life has consisted of an exchange of my soul for worldly things, cultural conformance, and that dreadful thing known as money. But, sometimes you need to…
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[Day 4] Back to Avalon
![[Day 4] Back to Avalon](https://jarodlyles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/dsc09591-1.jpg)
I started the day out of Shark Harbor, headed back towards the town of Avalon. Officially, the Trans-Catalina Trail ended at Two Harbor, but I decided to milk the time and hike back to Avalon. My route was either to follow a mix of dirt roads on a more western side of the island, an…
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[Day 3] North Island
![[Day 3] North Island](https://jarodlyles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/dsc09372-1.jpg)
I was awake to an exceptional morning on the Catalina beach of Parson Landing. I had it in my mind to see the northern part of the island off the official Trans-Catalina Trail. There was a bit of a climb out of Parson Landing, and I had an idea there would be some solid gain…
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[Day 2] Isthmus
![[Day 2] Isthmus](https://jarodlyles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/dsc09108-1.jpg)
I awoke to my favorite territorial bison bothering some fellow campers. He decided to show them down a few feet away from their tent, eventually chewing the grass the way towards my camp. Leaving Little Harbor, the eye was greeted with a picturesque view of the coves. North from Little Harbor, trail hopped up on…
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[Day 1] Santa Catalina
![[Day 1] Santa Catalina](https://jarodlyles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/dsc08802-1-1.jpg)
I still have the bug. An underlying desire to dissipate time on my two feet is not going away anytime soon. A couple months have elapsed since the finality of the Arizona Trail, and the expanse of the American west gnaws on my femur bone like a famished dog. Urbia and suburbia make me batty.…