Day 26 – More pictures from the first Washington section

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…

Washington is amazing!!  I’m so glad that I made the decision to pop up to Cascade Locks and hike north from there, for lots of reasons: First, Washington is gorgeous, this is some of the best hiking on the PCT!  Also, it’s actually a relief to become a section hiker, I just feel so much…

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,…

Yesterday I made my way to the start of the trail by flying to Portland, an Amtrak bus to Astoria, and then walking to the state park (there were no Ubers 😢).  So really, it was a pretty easy task to get to the start.  After a lovely night camping at the hiker/biker site at…