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PCT Day 123-125: Trout Lake – A Town of Opera Singers, Fat Cat Shaming and the Everlasting Bag of Trail Mix

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

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PCT Day 120 – Welcome to the Jungle, Where You Get Shot At Everyday

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

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PCT Day 119 – Would You Rather Be Trampled by Elk or Runover by a Semi Truck on the PCT?

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

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PCT Day 116-118 – Peach butts, wild salmon and reconnecting with old friends

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

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PCT Day 115 – The day we almost kicked a YouTuber off a cliff

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

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PCT Day 87 – Broken poles, fractured toes and missing shorts: Shannon’s life goes wonky

PCT Day 87  July 26, 2021  Mile: 878.7 to 901.1 (22.4 miles) Start: Mono Creek campsite Finish: Deer Creek stealth campsite To our surprise, Shannon and I were one of the first hikers to leave camp in the morning. We thought that by 8:30am the whole campsite would be cleared out early as a couple

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