July 2021

PCT Day 42  June 11 2021  Mile: 478.2 to 498.2  Start: Green Valley Fire Station camping under some pine trees Finish: Sawmill campground  I must have needed the extra sleep this morning because I didn’t wake up until a very late hour of 8:30am, much later than the 5am that we had talked about waking […]

PCT Day 41 June 10 2021  Mile: 454.4 to 478.2 (23.8 miles) Start: tenting in an abandoned parking lot in the town of Agua Dulce Finish: Green Valley Fire Station tentsite under pine trees Shannon and I woke up while the sky was still dark in the early morning and hurriedly packed away our tent

PCT Day 40  June 9, 2021  Mile: 444.3 454.4  Start: Acton, CA KOA campground  Finish: An empty grass lot next to some old shops and a parking lot Shannon and I finally got back on the trail around 2pm after hanging out at the KOA campground until the heat died down a little bit. On

PCT days 33 to 39 Miles: 444.3 to 444.3  Start & Finish: off trail from the Acton, California KOA campground) to Bozeman, Montana.  Shannon and I took off a few days from the Pacific Crest Trail hike to go up to Jennie and James’s wedding up in Montana which was amazing. We had such a

PCT Day 32  Mile:431.9 to 442.3  Start: White sands campsite next to forest service road 4N33  Finish: Acton, CA Kampground of America Shannon and I woke up really early in the morning as last night we had seen a truck out patrolling the dirt roads above us right before we went to bed and were

PCT Day 31  Mile: 411.7 to 413.9  Start: gorgeous tentsite on a cliffside  Finish: Forest Service road 4N33 (aka the White Sands campsite) We took our sweet time waking up, cooking oatmeal, tea and coffee as we enjoyed being in a shaded forest for once instead of exposed desert sands. Hummingbirds chirped and trilled in

PCT day 30  Mile: 403.0 to 411.7 (skipped around 369.3 to 403.0 due to fire closure)  Start: The Holistic Health Spa in Wrightwood to the 3 Points Trailhead on Highway 2 Finish: Unnamed campsite atop a gorgeous view tentsite on a cliffside  Shannon and I woke up late in the hotel after a well-deserved rest.

PCT day 29  Mile: 369.3 to 341.9 southbound  Start: California Highway 2 inspiration point trailhead Finish: Cajon Pass at Highway I-15 May 29 2021. Today was the start of the Memorial Day long weekend and also the day that we were going to hike 29 miles slackpacking southbound to Cajon Pass where we had come

PCT Day 28 (zero day in Wrightwood, California)  Mile: 341.9 to 341.9 Start: Floor of an Airbnb with 12 or 13 other hikers  Finish: Suite at the Holistic Health Day Spa hostel  Shout out to our friends: HEYYYY HEIDI J!!!! Around 4:30am, several of the hikers staying at the Airbnb started getting up to catch

PCT Day 26  Mile: 298.5 to 317.3 Start: Beachside camping near Splinters Cabin in Deep Creek  Finish: Unnamed spring campsite no longer flowing after a wildfire This morning I was the slow one to wake up today, even though I was the one who also wanted to get to the legendary on trail hot springs

PCT Day 25 Mile: 275.0 to 298.5 Start: Caribou Creek tentsite (aka Camp Twinkie) Finish: Beachside camping near the historic Splinters Cabin and the trout-filled Deep Creek We weren’t the last ones out of camp today which was a great success in our book! We were only the second to last to depart camp this

PCT day 23  Miles 259.4 to 266.1 Start: the wild donkey campsite End: The Robin Hood Resort hotel room in Big Bear Lake, California At 1am, Shannon woke me up asking frantically if I had heard the noise outside.  “What did it sound like?” I asked sleepily. “It was so weird! It was like a

PCT Day 22 Mile 239.9 to 259.4 (19.5 miles) Start: Mission camp spring at 8000 feet  Stop: the wild donkey campsite outside of Big Bear We woke up with our teeth chattering to the temperature gauge outside reading a solid 26 degrees Fahrenheit. Our tent was covered in a nice dusting of snow, ice chunks

PCT Day 21  Mile: 226.2 to 239.9 (13.7 miles) Start: beachside campsite on Mission Creek End: Snowy tentsite in the pines at 8000 feet at Mission Camp We woke up in the early morning to see the beautiful sunrise rising above the mountains. I knew that it was probably time to get hiking right away