January 2022

PCT Day 127 September 4, 2021 Mile: 2240.0 to 2261.7 (21.7 miles) Start: Burnt Pond tentsite Finish: Coleman Weedpatch wooded tentsite This morning our new hiking friend Wetfoot woke up about the same time as us which is to say late in hiker lingo around 8am. She went to go pee around the corner and

PCT Day 126 September 3, 2021 Mile: 2229.9 to 2240.0 (10.1 miles) Start: Comfy hotel at Trout Lake Valley Inn Finish: Burnt Rock Pond tentsite There was no rush on our part to leave the peaceful town of Trout Lake, Washington today and our main concern this morning was food (of course) and not much

PCT Day 123 to 125 August 31 to September 2, 2021 Mile: 2224.9 to 2229.9 (5.0 miles) Start: Crowded campsite at Trout Lake Creek Finish: Hotel room in Trout Lake Valley Inn, Trout Lake, Washington At 4:30am several loud hikers in our crowded campsite woke up and decided to have a noisy conversation in the

PCT Day 122 August 30, 2021 Mile: 2206.3 to 2224.9 (18.6 miles) Start: Blue Lake tentsite nestled in the huckleberries Finish: Trout Lake Creek The wind was roaring out of the mountains this morning, pulling thick clouds of cold damp fog down from the peaks and dumping it right atop the surface of the pond

PCT Day 121 August 29, 2021 Mile: 2183.2 to 2206.3 via Panther Falls alternate (17.1 miles) Start: Tropical Rainforest tentsite near Panther Creek Finish: Busy Blue Lake tentsite nestled in huckleberries Shannon and I set our alarm early to get out of the high traffic campsite area as soon as possible and onto the trail.

PCT Day 120 August 28, 2021 Mile: 2163.1 to 2183.2 (20.4 including .3 mi side trail) Start: Three Corner Rock epic campsite  Finish: Tropical Rainforest tentsite near Panther Creek Overnight the calmness of sunset disappeared as the wind whipped up and blew clouds of fine red grit everywhere. We woke up to a thin layer

PCT Day 119 August 27, 2021 Mile: 2147.6 to 2163.1 (15.5 mi) Start: Cheapo motel in Cascade Locks, Oregon Finish: Epic campsite atop Three Corner Rock We woke up in the early dawn, hoping that it would be our lucky day to see a beautiful sunrise as we walked across the infamous Bridge of the

PCT Day 116 to 118 August 24 to 26, 2021  Mile: 2145.0 to 2147.6 (2.6 miles) Start: Secret deer meadow next to Columbia River highway Finish: Hotel in the tourist town of Hood River, Oregon My legs were so sore this morning from essentially doing a marathon of hiking yesterday that I had to waddle

PCT Day 115 August 23, 2021 Mile: 2119.7 to 2145.0 (25.3 miles) Start: Salvation Springs tentsite Finish: Secret deer meadow next to Columbia River highway We woke up in the morning to find that everyone had already cleared out of the damp and somewhat miserable Salvation Springs campsite. I mean I wouldn’t want to hang