Day 88, 6:30 AM / Burney, CA Hey everyone - I'm gonna try to keep it short today because I want to get back to the trail, but we'll see how that goes. Since I last wrote we've been hiking through one of the least-liked sections of trail. It's hot, hot, hot again and water …
Continue reading Trail Update #8: Goodbyes and New Adventures
Day 77 (Wow...), 9:30 PM Well hello! It's been another beautiful stretch of hiking since I last wrote, with the land changing beneath our feet quickly and drastically, the high mountains rounding out and softening as we've headed north. We came out of Mammoth, hiked through Yosemite Wilderness, and worked our way up to the …
Continue reading Trail Update #7: Home on the Trail (Sort Of)
Day 59, Mammoth Lakes, 8 AM Hello friends and family! I can't tell you how nice it is right now to have some cell phone service and internet and enough time to sit down and write for a bit. We've been way out in the wilderness for this last stretch, going over probably the toughest …
Continue reading Trail Update #6: Mountains Beyond Mountains
Hello everyone! Ben, Emily, Duncan, Mathew and I are in the friendly town of Tehachapi, CA. We got here three days ago in the early evening and have been camping on the lawn of the local airport, the cheap lodging of choice for PCT hikers coming through. I'd usually be antsy after this amount of …
Continue reading Trail Update #5: Last Stretch of the Desert
Hello from Hiker Heaven! One mile out of Agua Dulce, CA, Hiker Heaven is a compound owned by trail angels where PCT hikers can come and stay for a night or two, get a shower, do laundry, rest and be refreshed... it's one of the most popular stops on the trail, with supposedly up to …
Continue reading Trail Update #4: Wind, Hot Springs, Wrightwood, Group Expansion
Day 13 - 11 AM Hello from Idyllwild, CA! What a cool little place. I say it's little but it's actually the most developed town we've come to so far, and the people here are very hiker-friendly. Today is a chill day for us - we might hike out in a little while, but I hurt my …
Continue reading Trail Update #3 – Trail magic and crew conflict
Day 6 on trail, 7:45 pm (Thought: at what point will it become tedious to calculate what trail-day it is? Will I just resort to using the date? Hm) Hello everyone, from mile 80 ish of the PCT. It's day 6 of our trip, and the last couple days things took a little turn. We …
Day 2, 8:20 PM Hello everyone! I'm writing to you from my tent at Boulder Oaks campground, a bit past mile 26 of the PCT. Obligatory: Yay we're here!! Wow!! I can't believe this is really, finally happening! Now that that's out of the way, I wanna jot down a few things. I'm gonna try …
Hi everyone! First, I want to say you're all truly awesome for being interested in following along on this adventure of mine ( / ours) !! THANK YOU so much for the support, the excitement, the love, the friendship, the family-ship, all the good stuff. I sure wouldn't be where I am without it. …
I'm not going to write a real serious post right now; I'm just trying to set up this blog and get a feel for things. Duncan and I are at his mom's house in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sitting at their kitchen table on our laptops, surrounded by ziploc bags full of oats, granola, nuts, mac and …
Expressions from this side of the here & now 