Five weeks out from stepping onto the Tahoe Rim Trail, and today the logistics finally caught up with the excitement.
Two nights are locked in: the Alder Inn in South Lake Tahoe, and the Inn at Boatworks in Tahoe City. Real beds on a long trail matter more than I expected them to.
The rest of today was decisions, the kind that don’t feel exciting until you realize they’re the ones that actually make or break a trip. Fuel canisters can’t fly with me on Amtrak, so I’m picking mine up at Tahoe Sports Ltd once I’m on the ground instead of trying to ship or carry them in. I found someone in the TRT Thru Hikers Facebook group willing to cache water near Brockway, the kind of trail magic you can’t plan for until you ask. And I’m shipping a resupply box to the Inn at Boatworks, packed with Mountain House meals from Denver for the segment out of Alder Inn.
None of it is glamorous. All of it needed to happen.
There’s still a list waiting for me when I come back to it: confirm with the Inn at Boatworks that they’ll actually hold the box, post in the Facebook group for the Brockway trail angel, check FarOut for current water and trail conditions, nail down how much water capacity I actually need, and take stock of training and how my foot is holding up.
But five weeks out, this thing is starting to come together. Time to go enjoy the rest of the day. I’ve earned it.