“Wait, so do you carry all your food for the entire hike with you the entire time?” If you’re thinking about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, be ready for people to ask you this question (among others) as you make your way down the trail. Nobody is carrying the calories required for a PCT thru-hike […]
The Ultimate Mountain House Freeze Dried Meal Review
It’s true, a person can live on cheese, tortillas, and candy in the wilderness for weeks at a time; I’m living proof of this. Sadly, as incredible as the cheese/tortilla/candy diet can be, it leaves something to be desired – namely, food (or at least what my dad would call food). In the world of […]
PCT Class of 2016 Survey: The Resupply Guide
The questions surrounding Pacific Crest Trail resupply in this year’s Pacific Crest Trail Thru-hiker Survey were expanded to better answer what’s one of the trails biggest challenges (at least in the planning stages). Hopefully this information will help to lessen the unnecessary stress that hikers put themselves through when attempting to plan how to get […]
The Kennedy Meadows To Vermilion Valley Resort (VVR) PCT Resupply
Resupply on the Pacific Crest Trail (how you get yourself more food and/or supplies) is one of the major logistical obstacles that hikers face every year (although I would argue that, barring any special dietary restrictions, resupply is a relatively simple thing to deal with – but that’s another story). Many times the call whether […]
The Hiker Food Formula
I heard a lot of silly and irrational sounding theories regarding food, and calories, and frequency of eating, and more things I don’t care about on the Pacific Crest Trail. Despite my detailed explanation of the hiker food situation, I felt it necessary to share the following hiker food advice. Not because I followed it, […]
The Currency Of The Pacific Crest Trail
Whether you are swapping Pokémon cards on the playground, scoring cigarettes in prison, or trading trillium ore in Azeroth, commodity money still serves a practical function in groups around the world. Thru-hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail are no exception. Let’s say you have been on-trail for four days. Almost one hundred miles separate you […]
How Much Does It Cost To Hike The Pacific Crest Trail?
How much does it cost to hike the Pacific Crest Trail? Perhaps the most popular question I have received from readers recently, and perhaps the most difficult to answer (accurately, that is, but I can make up numbers for days). As with the physical preparation required for a thru-hike, the monetary preparation required for the […]
Going Stoveless On The Pacific Crest Trail
People make a lot of fuss when it comes to what cooking system to bring along on the Pacific Crest Trail, but I have a simple solution to everyone’s problem: go stoveless (that means “no stove” for anyone who has problems with suffixes). An unthinkable act of trail heresy for many, the idea of not […]
The Thru-Hiker Diet: Eating On The PCT
Ever wonder what you would eat if you had no access to refrigeration, cooking was limited to boiling water, and you had to carry all your food and cooking materials in a backpack with you through the wilderness? No? Glad you asked. The answer is simple, friend: your diet closely resembles that of a poor […]
PCT Progress Report V: Washington
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 […]
