Over the years, there have been a number of deaths on the Pacific Crest Trail. With the trail's growing popularity, it's important that people realize that a PCT thru-hike does not take place in a controlled environment and that death on the PCT is an entirely realistic possibility for the
The One Month Pacific Crest Trail Thru-Hike: Is It Possible?
You may have already assumed that a one-month thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail is an impossibility and that the notion of hiking 2,660 miles in such a brief period is lunacy. However, if life has taught me anything, it's that we shouldn't be quick to assume - especially when things seem
The Final Stats of the Pacific Crest Trail
I love statistics, and hiking the Pacific Crest Trail has provided me with plenty of data to sift through. Previously, I reported my PCT statistics in five different progress reports: The Desert, The Sierra, NorCal, Oregon, and Washington. The following is a compilation of all the statistical
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 abandon my quest for Canada. With the monotony of Oregon's landscape also comes more rain and more gloom
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