trek

They started their Amtrak trek in Burlington, Vt., on Saturday, enjoying a holiday parade in Schenectady, N.Y., and renting e-bikes in Chicago before we all boarded the California Zephyr Sunday afternoon.

If their two 13.5-kilowatt batteries, charged by rooftop panels, begin to drop near 20% capacity, they trek down a gravel path to the corner of their front yard and switch on a massive generator.

So it was bittersweet to this fiercely ambitious author that writing fame arrived with “The Snow Leopard,” his 1978 chronicle of a two-month trek to the Tibetan Plateau of the Himalayas.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he accompanied David Woodman and other searchers on their treks.

One of the Dodgers’ primary challenges will be managing the returning talent — and ensuring the toll from their previous two title treks doesn’t become a roadblock.