Day 4 and 5 Miles 0 PCT Mile 41 We woke up around the same time in the middle of the night and hung out for about two hours, stretching and visiting and whatever whatever. We woke up again super early and sat around for an extraordinary amount of time. Read more…
Day 3 Trail Miles: 3.5 Bonus Miles: 2.4 PCT Mile: 41 ANJI, I tried to scream but nothing came out. HELP ME. Nothing again. I was quite certain a mountain lion had its nose against my back. It was the middle of the night and I was paralyzed with fear. Read more…
Day 2 11.2 miles Camped at mile 22.6 And there I was, at 2:17 in the morning, quite certain I was going to die if I didn’t eat peanut butter immediately, but I couldn’t find it and I had to pee and where was my spoon? Oh the torture of Read more…
Ice formations around telephone poles and in puddles looked like topography maps and there was snow on the cacti as we moved down the trail. We were on the PCT. After all the planning and calling and timing and stress and money well spent, there is no longer anything to Read more…
And then it was 5am and the puppy we got last night squiggled around the bed like a little inchworm and my husband rubbed her little back. My heart melted into a warm mushy pile of goo. But 5:15 came and it was into a freezing ass car I went Read more…
The storm raged on. This may not be the best idea I’ve ever had in my life, but I’m hiking that 150 miles of the PCT anyway. Right through this storm. But it ain’t gonna hike itself. What should’ve been a 2.5 hour drive home from Sacramento was an 8 Read more…
He cried a lot and got out of the dog run about half a dozen times and hung out at the fence and cried for the other goats until mom strapped the dog run gates together and that kept him in for sure. We were supposed to introduce Bosco gradually Read more…
Day 13 PCT Mile Marker 1256.00 – 1265.40 Miles Hiked 9.4 People were heading the other way. Southbound. Toward Sierra City. They’d already heard about the treacherous snow conditions from whomever they saw before me. Mitch? Double Cross? Could be anybody, really. We all survived something and had something to Read more…
Day 12 PCT Mile Marker 1243.10 – 1256.00 Miles Hiked Today 12.9 I woke up and couldn’t find my hat or my pen. What the…? Did I sleep walk and lose them in the woods? I literally had both when I fell asleep. I know I did. I shook out Read more…
Day 11 PCT Mile Marker 1229.09 – 1243.10 Miles Hiked 14.01 I felt good. I’d made it through the worst, and I’d grown as a person. I felt so…alive. Sick of carrying extra weight, I put a good splash of whiskey in my coffee. I went into the woods to Read more…