BLACK BEAR WILDERNESS 14-MILE HIKE AND CAMP TECH

(Some of the Homies will be carrying full backpacks in preparation for their 72-mile hike November 9 - 14, 2026. Everyone is welcome. You can go around with us once or eat your sack lunch and hike with us a second time.)

Arrive at 8AM. This 7-mile trail is a loop. We'll go counterclockwise.

At Mile 3, we'll arrive at the primitive camp site and set up camp. Afterward, we'll pack up and continue on.

Back at the trailhead, we'll have lunch around noon.

We'll repeat the 7-mile loop one more time and call it a day.

After this hike you will have reached the endurance level that the trail will expect from you for six days in November. Finishing the hike today will leave you with more confidence and maybe a little exuberance for what's ahead.

Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand became the first recorded man to reach the summit of Everest in 1953, the South Pole in '58 and the North Pole soon after. He said, "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves".