Want to do some planning for your inevitable Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike but don’t know where to start? Looking for the best Pacific Crest Trail resources? Well if you haven’t already, I suggest you check out my Pacific Crest Trail page. Absorbed all of that? Great, read on. As much as I would like to […]
Halfmile’s PCT App Review
Halfmile’s PCT app is perhaps the most widely used navigation app on the Pacific Crest Trail. The app is basically a glorified PCT data book with GPS capabilities. Basically, you turn on your GPS, open the app, and then it tells you (in a text readout) what mile you’re at, your latitude and longitude, your […]
Guthook’s PCT Guide Review
If you are going to hike the Pacific Crest Trail and want a serious app dedicated to the PCT, then Guthook’s Guide is exactly what you’re looking for. Guthook went to extraordinary lengths to not only create an excellent app, but also to document thousands of waypoints, from campsites to post offices, all complete with […]
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 […]
Rocket Llama’s Brilliant PCT Comics
I met a lot of special people along the Pacific Crest Trail, and one of those people was Rocket Llama. Rocket Llama has used her artistic talents to convey life on the PCT in comic form, and she has been greatly successful in doing so. The following two comics come straight from Rocket Llama’s Tumblr […]
Yogi’s Guide For Squares
As anyone wishing to hike the Pacific Crest Trail will quickly learn, the disorganization of useful resources is quite abysmal (especially for those with no long distance hiking experience or previous knowledge of the PCT). It is difficult to know which sources of information are reliable, which are maintained, which are written by ultra-athletic twenty-something […]
Craig’s PCT Planner
Attempting to “plan” a Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike has reminded me why I never plan ahead of time. How one could even begin to accurately plan a five-month walk across the country is beyond me. However, in this case, a lack of planning could potentially result in my starving alone in the woods or being […]
The PCT-L (Listserv): Pacific Crest Trail Email You Don’t Want
Members of the Pacific Crest Trail hiking community have taken to using various forms of social media and electronic communication as a means of keeping in touch with one another. The PCT-L (or PCT-Listserv) relays emails from individual members to the entire group as a means of facilitating intelligent discussion between past and prospective hikers. […]
