Day 26 – More pictures from the first Washington section

Made it to Stevens Pass…  This section of the trail is absolutely gorgeous!  I really enjoyed it, of course it was a lot of constant elevation gains and drops, but once you got to the views it was oh so worth it.  And all of the snow is gone (at least trail snow), so there…

We’re starting the sunshine coast trail today!  So far it’s been amazing, it took 2 car ferries and about 5 hours of driving to get here, but we made it eventually… This is a short trail, 110 miles, we’re going to try and do it in 6 days, but so far it’s been amazing!  we…

I was ready to be done with the horribleness of California, but I wasn’t ready to be done with the PCT, so I compromised and decided to downgrade myself from “thru-hiker” to “section-hiker”.  So I jumped up to Cascade Locks to hike Washington.  Both the Sierras and Washington are some of the absolute best hiking…

Travis is not doing well. It’s the heat, the neverending sunshine that leads to blistering hot days climbing up and down these mountains.  I can’t remember the last time I even saw a cloud.  It’s slowly wearing me down and making me wonder why I’m out here when every day is miserable 😞 I still…

7/2/24 My first week on the trail is done!  And wow, did the Sierras ever kick my butt, those first couple of days of hiking were rough.  I think I vastly overestimated my abilities and vastly underestimated the Sierras 🙂  It took me 2 extra days than I was planning to make it to Mammoth,…

6/24/24 Today is my PCT start date! I’m leaving from Kennedy Meadows, which is ~700 trail miles from the mexican border and right before the gorgeous California sierras (I’ll go back and hike the desert section in the fall when it’s cooler). The next stop should be mammoth, approximately 8-ish days down the trail. Wish…