PCT miles 101.4 to 109.6 – Barrel Spring to Warner Springs Guest Ranch– Total PCT miles 109.6 Woke up this morning to a new-to-trail-life experience: clouds and overcast skies. My first thought, "How did Gabriel and I make it back to Washington so soon?" We'd checked the forecast a few days prior and were aware … Continue reading Notes from a day of cloudy skies, oak groves, leap-frogging hikers and luxury
PCT miles 43 to 101.4 – Mt. Laguna to Barrel Spring – Total PCT miles 101.4
PCT miles 30.6 to 43 – Kitchen Creek Road to Mt. Laguna Lodge – Total PCT miles 43 Today we hiked to Mt. Laguna from Kitchen Creek and traveled through beautiful scrub oak canyons and up into pine and oak woodlands with grassy meadows. Meadows covered in spring flowers including yarrow, baby blue eyes, popcorn … Continue reading First forests and first resupply
PCT miles 16 to 30.6 – Hauser Creek to Kitchen Creek Road – Total PCT miles 30.6 After an evening sleeping under the stars (aka "cowboy camping" aka sleeping without a tent) and several interruptions from the US border patrol agents driving down the Hauser Creek Road we got started walking at 7:00 am. We … Continue reading Getting our rhythm
PCT miles 0 to 16 – Mexican Border to Hauser Creek – Total PCT miles 16Woke up this morning at 5:15 to Sandy (Frodo) and Barney (Scout) preparing us a nourishing pre-hike breakfast of eggs, pineapple, grapes and homemade bran muffins. Sandy was making us breakfast before she headed off to work!Gabriel and I are … Continue reading And so it begins…
After a last beautiful Saturday in Seattle and celebrating Stacy and Kevin's wedding it was time to get ready for a trip, well the trip. In someways this morning was like any other morning apres a hike, scramble, climb, or ski tour: finish packing the last odds and ends, add a few more snacks to … Continue reading Getting ready for any trip, only bigger
Tell someone you're about to start hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and often a smile spreads across their face and a dream-filled look fills their eyes. They wish you safe travels, beautiful views and sound knees... they even begin to offer you food! It's awesome to experience such a positive flow of energy when sharing … Continue reading Trail Magic!
After 20-some years of day dreaming and about a year of planning and preparations Gabriel and I will begin hiking the Pacific Crest Trail! In just a few days! It's hard for us to believe. We fly from Seattle to San Diego on 5/1 and begin walking on 5/2. It was a bit surreal when … Continue reading Shifting units of time
Undoubtedly this has been the most time consuming and logistically challenging part of our PCT preparations. I must give huge credit and many thanks to Gabriel for taking on the lion's share of work to put together the food for our resupply boxes from Campo to South Lake Tahoe. Over the past two weeks we've … Continue reading The nuts and bolts of our PCT preparations: Food!
Gone are the days when I used to carry two pairs of hiking pants, two pots and 15 pounds of beloved field guides for a multi-day backpacking trip! Over the last few years Gabriel and I have steadily upgraded our gear replacing old equipment with lighter weight options. We've overhauled our systems entirely: stove, tent, … Continue reading The nuts and bolts of our PCT preparations: Gear!
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