Finally having made it to Washington, there was no chance I was going to voluntarily end my Pacific Crest Trail journey short of the Canadian Border. Only 500 miles stood between me and the completion of perhaps the greatest physical undertaking of my life. Days ahead of all my trail buddies, I hit the ground […]
PCT Progress Report IV: Oregon
Oregon may have been my least favorite section of the entire Pacific Crest Trail thus far. An unchanging tunnel of densely packed trees with hardly any sights, Oregon nearly drove me to abandoning my quest for Canada. With the monotony of Oregon’s landscape also comes more rain and more gloom (previously the worst part of […]
PCT Progress Report III: NorCal
With the Sierra finished and my days of being super high are over, more than half of the Pacific Crest Trail still awaits me. Next up: Northern California. In researching the PCT, you rarely hear about Northern California. Both the desert and the Sierra are heavily detailed by former hikers, but once you start researching […]
PCT Progress Report II: The Sierra
The last 28 days have been spent making up for those first forty spent enduring the desert. The Sierra are nothing short of fucking incredible (profanity is necessary here to accurately convey the degree of incredibleness). After getting super high for so many days in a row, it is hard to imagine how the remainder […]
PCT Progress Report I: The Desert
Seven-hundred miles of Pacific Crest Trail and the California desert are now behind me. I now sit at the legendary Kennedy Meadows with the Sierra and a state of perpetual highness await me in the distance. But before we discuss my entry into bear country, let us take a look back at some of the […]
