On March 27, 2018 I set out to thru hike the 2,650 mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. Traveling the height of the country though California, Oregon, and Washington the trail took me from lowland desert to soaring alpine wilderness and everything in between. For the 168 days I was on trail I kept a (nearly) daily blog post.
The Dessert
Day 0 – The Kindness of Strangers
Day 1 – What Are we Even Doing?
Day 2 – Fantastic, Fantastic, Fantastic!
Day 3 – A Nero at Mount Laguna
Day 4 – Little by Little
Day 5 – Trail Names
Day 6 – Shouldn’t I be Doing Something?
Day 7 – The Living Desert
Day 8 – 800 Calories of Cheese
Day 9 – Body Glide is my Religion
Day 10 – Mike’s Place
Day 11 – The First Hardest Day
Day 12 & 13 – Eating All the Food
Day 14 – I Can See the Future
Day 15 – Listening to Queen and Running from Bees
Day 16 – The Dingleberry Quotient
Day 17 – Snacks = Joy
Day 18 – A Menagerie of Bears
Day 19 – News from Friends
Day 20 – Trail Names, an Update
Day 21 – Blustering Zero
Day 22 – What Am Adulting?
Day 23 – 300 and a 360
Day 24 – Norman Rockwell
Day 25 – It’s All About McDonalds
Day 26 – Hubris and Hormones
Day 27 – A Quicky in Wrightwood
Day 28 – Pandora’s Pants
Day 29 – Edges
Day 30 – World Stage
Day 31 – Mussorgsky
Day 32 – One Month and 10 Lessons
Day 33 – The Saufleys
Day 34 – 90% Fun
Day 35 – Reasonable
Day 36 – In the Summer we can Build a Snowman
Day 37 – Get in the Zone, the Comfort Zone!
Day 38 – And so it Was
Day 39 – Errands
Day 40 – Food
Day 41 – What’s Gross? Video Blog!
Day 42 – 18 Miles
Day 43 – Yes, But First Uphill
Day 44 – Chili
Day 45 – David
Day 46 – Swimming in the Brocean
Day 47 – Tomorrow
Day 48 – It Would Seem We’ve Done a Thing
The Sierra – Part 1
Day 49 – Early Bird
Day 50 – Plan B
Day 51 – The Planner and the Doer
Day 52 – Saturday Morning Cartoons
Day 53 – Lone Pine
Day 54 to 56 – Planning and Resting
Northern California- Part 1 – SoBo Flip
Day 57 – Back on the Trail
Day 58 – Mo’ Squtos, Mo’ Problems
Day 59 – So, So Small
Day 60 – It’s Like David Blane, On Your Son’s Birthday
Day 61 – Two Months and 10 More Lessons Learned
Day 62 – Weekend at Burneys
Day 63 – Imaginary Hot Tubs and Cold Showers
Day 64 – Arbitrary
Day 65 – People I Know!
Day 66 – That Cool Bird
Day 67 – Doing it and 26 Miles
Day 68 – Wild and Pee
Day 69 – The Dirtiest Thirty, Round 1
Day 70 – Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Day 71 – Is This Bravery
Day 72 – What 1,000 Miles Feels Like
Day 73 – Finally
Day 74 – What in the Actual
Day 75 – Stupid Murder Forest
Day 76 – Smell the Bubble
Day 77 – This Snowcone Tastes Like Crying
Day 78 – The Breaking Point
Day 79 to 81 – Airborne Bobsleigh, Thank You, A Favor
The Sierra – Part 2 – SoBo Flip
Day 82 – Back on the Map
Day 83 – Nothing is Certain
Day 84 – One of the Best
Day 85 – “I’m Sure You’ll be Fine”
Day 86 – By the Numbers
Day 87 – Out is Through
Day 88 – Exposure Therapy
Day 89 – The Hardest 23
Day 90 – Yosemite is So Hot Right Now
Day 91 – Three Months and Another 10 Lessons
Day 92 – Into the Land of Smoke and Marmots
Day 93 – Smoke Like Fog
Day 94 – Alyssa
Day 95 – Work
Day 96 – Cold in the Middle
Day 97 – Trail Zero
Day 98 – The Plan After A
Day 99 – Shrug of Rejection
Day 100 – What is in 100 Miles?
Day 101 – High Def in Real Life
Day 102 – Stories
Day 103 – I Know What That Is
Day 104 – Fire as a Season, Apparently
Day 105 – How to Hitch to Reno
Day 106 – U-Turn
Northern California – Part 2
Day 107 – Northbound Again, Finally
Day 108 – The Dirtiest Thirty, Round 2
Day 109 – The Madness of Northern California
Day 110 – The Weather Outside is Weather
Day 111 – Rushing into Etna
Day 112 – Peak PCT Moment
Day 113 – Just a Moment
Day 114 – California Anti-Climax
Oregon
Day 115 – Camp
Day 116 – Town Days
Day 117 – Welcome to Holo-Deck 2650
Day 118 – The Gopher and the Beehive
Day 119 – Secrets
Day 120 – Stagnant Pond of my Dreams!
Day 121 – 4 Months and Yet Another 10 Lessons
Day 122 – A Disturbance in the Force
Day 123 – 30 Miles
Day 124 – Bucket List
Day 125 – Putzing Past Ponds
Day 126 – Coming Up for Air
Day 127 – The Sisters
Day 128 – No Chello
Day 129 – You Smell Like a Stranger
Day 130 – A&B on the PCT
Day 131 – Everybody is so Nice
Day 132 – What 2,000 Miles Feels Like
Day 133 – Spot the SoBo
Day 134 -Red Light, Blue Shadows
Day 135 – Coming to Pass
Day 136 – Sometimes it Doesn’t Feel like It’s Getting Any Easier
Day 137 – Reflections on Oregon
Day 138 – You’re so Clean!
Washington
Day 139 – Huckle Pluckin’
Day 140 – What to See, What to Do
Day 141 – Like Dancing
Day 142 – Starman, King of Alternates
Day 143 – PCT Trail Days, Day 1
Day 144 – PCT Trail Days, Day 2
Day 145 – Pull a Frozen
Day 146 – Everything and Nothing
Day 147 – Maybe Smokey Bear Lied to You
Day 148 – Even the Downhills are Uphill
Day 149 – Getting There
Day 150 & 151 – 5 Months and a Final 10 Lessons Learned
Day 152 – Commit to Less
Day 153 – Days Like Today
Day 154 – Perhaps an Argument Worth Having
Day 155 – What do You Want to Eat
Day 156 – Hello, Autumn
Day 157 & 158 – The Canadian Scramble
Day 159 – Six Days of Food
Day 160 – Back to School
Day 161 – 6 Reasons Having your Period on the Trail is Basically the Worst
Day 162 – A Brutal Sort of Beauty
Day 163 – Fire Plans
Day 164 – Sweet Baby Jeezu, the Last Nero
Day 165 – Impassable is Just Another Word for Adventure
Day 166 – A Four Pass Day
Day 167 – Ash and the Mad Baker
Day 168 – The End.
