So after everything you’ve read you still want to hike the Pacific Crest Trail? Well, I have some news for you: you’re probably going to die out there (and nobody will miss you). I’ve already warned about the bears, the things scarier than bears, and even the more things scarier than bears, but for some […]
List Of Deaths On The Pacific Crest Trail
So you are interested in hiking the Pacific Crest Trail but you don’t know if you’re quite ready to drag yourself across a continent for five months and probably die? Need to come up with some statistics to put to rest your family’s fears that you will be dragged from your sleeping bag in the […]
Murderers In The Desert (& PCT Checkers)
Up until this point we have addressed every hikers’ (and person’s) worst fear: bears. However, since bears do not pose a threat until somewhere around mile 700 of the Pacific Crest Trail (at least those we are aware of), I feel as though I must address the things most likely to kill you in the […]
How To Not Be Eaten by Bears
Plenty of things can kill you whilst walking alone for hundreds of miles in isolated woods: hypothermia, starvation, dysentery, hatchet murderers, the headless horseman, lightning strikes, and the most terrifying of all – bears. Imagine yourself snuggled into your sleeping bag late one night, just beginning to feel the night’s sleep come to take you, […]
