It’s hard to believe, but I’m almost done with this trail! Only 50 more miles to go until I hit the northern terminus (the trail doesn’t actually go all the way to Canada, it stops about a tenth of a mile from the border. Why? Who knows…)
So far the trail has been a lovely hike through warm/humid/buggy forests, with the occasional climb up a rock and a nice view. The hike has been good, except for 1 day of decent rain, but I just so happened to be near tettegouche state park with their amazing visitors center (complete with places to sit, wifi, and a little coffee bar, what more do you need?!?). So I made the executive decision to NOT slog all day in the rain and instead sit in that visitor center and watch YouTube videos for the entire day. It was 100% the right decision 🙃
Tettegouche state parkThe foggy day *after* the rainy day. I always do love me some foggy hiking days, they are simply the best 🥰Lilly’s island. It’s a cute little place to stop for a few minutes Hunter’s rock and the view of some lake, I wanna say lake Agnes? Could be wrong, there were a lot of lakes in this areaOne of my favorite parts of this trail are these rivers! They carve these impressive gorges out of the rock and just aren’t something I expected to find in MN! Do you enjoy steep (but relatively short) climbs up to a big rock to get a view of a seemingly neverending expanse of trees? Then the SHT might just be the trail for you! All thru hikers will recognize this! Normally, this is what we call “trail magic” a cooler parked near a road filled with cold sodas, fruit, snacks, etc – all to help make a tired, hungry hiker’s day a little bit better. The sad part of this photo is that this cooler was not in fact trail magic, but was instead a cooler with a broken wheel that someone abandoned on their way to a campsite (it was filled with water bottles, uncooked bacon, etc, and was clearly someone’s camp food). That’s the saddest day ever when the excitement of trail magic turns into utter disappointment.
I had a fantastic time in Mammoth, I basically laid in my hotel bed with the air conditioning blasted and watched YouTube videos as long as I possibly could…. it was amazing 😍 Today I’m heading back up to the trail, there’s a bus that goes from Mammoth -> Red’s Meadow, so I’ll be on…
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…
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…
Just in case anyone is curious… I was definitely contemplating being done with my hiking for the summer, but then decided that I needed one more. Just one more hike. I swear I’m not an addict, I can stop anytime, I just need one more hit, I mean hike 🙃 So I’m planning to hike…
Well folks, that’s it, I’m done with the Superior hiking trail! The last few days were just nice hiking, nothing significant or noteworthy really happened, I was just chugging along enjoying my forests! So overall, I really enjoyed this trail, it’s a very pretty walk through lovely forests. However, I would never walk it during…
Great pictures again!