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PCT Week 15: July 4th Storms, Paradise Lake, and Reaching Oregon
Castle Crags Wilderness It is finally time to leave Dunsmuir and into Castle Crags we go. The days of rest help with the climb as we pass many day...
PCT Week 14: Heatwave, Shasta, and Mile 1500
Burney Falls It’s 100+ today and as you can imagine it’s impossible to hike. Luckily we are only 8 miles from Burney Falls, a perfect place to hide from the...
A Message To Those Who Have Trauma
TW: Sexual Assault • • • Today, exactly 3 years ago, (July 13th) I was sexually assaulted. My life changed in that single moment. I went from being a human...
PCT Week 13: Reaching Half Way, Lassen, and a Realization
Even more storms, Even more burn areas After a well taken zero in Quincy, Build-a-Bear and I head back into more burn area. Rain and thunderstorms are expected so we...
PCT Week 12: Sierra Buttes, Fire Zones, and Quincy
Last bit of snow (for now) Making my way out of Truckee, I reunite with Mountain Goat. It’s been quite a while since I last saw him, last time being...
PCT Week 8: Entering the Sierra
Off to Kennedy Meadows It is finally time, I’m headed towards the Sierra. I have been looking forward to this section since I started my journey and Kennedy Meadows South...
22 Trek Bloggers on the Pacific Crest Trail You Should Be Following in 2022
As the snow melts in the PCT's Sierra Mountains and Katahdin opens to AT hikers, we find ourselves deep in the throes of thru-hiking season once more. For months now,...
Beauty…Comes At A Price
Forester. Kearsarge. Glen. Pinchot. Mather. Bishop. Muir. Selden. Silver. Mammoth. Island. Donahue. At 942.5 miles on the PCT, these are the names we’ve come to know and suffer. Each...
The People and The Mother
“In dedication to those we have hiked, do hike, and will hike alongside on the Pacific Crest Trail” 1:30AM. “Bing. Beep. &@$$&@$” Basecamp’s alarm sounded off in the morning...
PCT Week 6: Nero’s, 500, and the Mojave
Acton & Agua Dulche, a Quick Nero This is the first week that doesn’t start from a zero out of town, much rather it begins with a nero into Acton....