Day 59 PCT Mile Marker 1727.58 – 1747.9 Miles Hiked 20.32 Crackle-crackle-pop-crackle-crackle The high voltage lines were menacing overhead. I felt like I should duck. I battled the giant dandelions, swatting them with my poles. They disintegrated at my touch, blowing up in a million directions, flying away with the Read more…
Day 58 PCT Mile Marker 1716.19 – 1727.58 Miles Hiked 11.39 All that food fit into three medium priority mail boxes. I’d unpackaged everything I could, removing it from cardboard boxes, getting rid of extra bulk, splitting stuff into ziploc bags and labeling them with my sharpie. This Is How Read more…
Day 57 PCT Mile Marker 1716.19 – 1716.19 Miles Hiked 0 Shamelessly, we snuck me into the breakfast buffet at Michelle and Leland’s swanky hotel. Then we sat in the hot tub for while. Then the pool. Then the hot tub. Then, unfortunately, they had to head home. I walked Read more…
Day 56 PCT Mile Marker 1716.19 – 1716.19 Miles Hiked 0 My tent was wet from the grass at the Lodge. Waited for it to dry. Moved it from this spot of sun to that one. Turned it around six times. Moved it again. …Watching Paint Peel… Draped it over Read more…
Day 55 PCT Mile Marker 1693.58 – 1716.19 Miles Hiked 22.16 Hikers: “You don’t need that ice ax. You should sent it home.” Me: “Oh, I think it’s very fashionable. I think everyone will be carrying them in the future.” Hikers: “…” My favorite is leaving camp just when everyone Read more…
Day 54 PCT Mile Marker 1668.24 – 1693.58 Miles Hiked 25.34 The moon was going down, orangy-yellow in the hazy smoke and early morning light. The wind was cool, flowing over my skin like water. So refreshing and clean. I followed paths around trees which had fallen across the trail. Read more…
Day 53 PCT Mile Marker 1653.42 – 1668.24 Miles Hiked 14.82 I don’t think you could call what I did “sleep”. I’d pitched my tent in what I thought was a far corner. Far away from Other People. But a light came on in the store that was really bright Read more…
Day 52 PCT Mile Marker 1632.15 – 1653.42 Miles Hiked 21.27 So, so cold all night. And I was so tired, I left my electronics on…all night. Batteries were low on everything in the morning. But I got my favorite. My favorite is the early morning hiking on soft downhills. Read more…
Day 51 PCT Mile Marker 1611.57 – 1632.15 Miles Hiked 20.58 The mountains had sticky fingers, and the cotton fog clung to them way down below me in a thousand valleys. Kleenex on a stubbly beard. Suddenly the land became lush and green. Plants fighting each other for space to Read more…
Day 50 PCT Mile Marker 1597.24 – 1611.58 Miles Hiked 14.34 One more breakfast at Bob’s Restaurant in the morning. Turtle and two other hikers went with me. I took it easy on the coffee. I packed up and headed out. Down the road I went, my thumb on the Read more…