PCT Day 36: Taco Salad At Casa De Luna

Miles hiked today: 23.7 Miles hiked total: 478.2 I wake up before 6am at Hiker Heaven, and start packing away my things. I have a breakfast of yoghurt and strawberries – I always buy yoghurt to eat in town because of the probiotics, but I was too full to eat it yesterday. Then Clams starts […]

PCT Day 35: Zero at Hiker Heaven

Miles hiked today: 0 Miles hiked total: 454.5 I wake up, warm in my tent, to the sound of roosters in the yard. My tent is covered in condensation, but luckily I can just leave it up to dry, as we are taking a zero right here at Hiker Heaven! In what I’m not sure […]

PCT Day 34: Yellow Grasses, Butterfly Friends, and Hiker Heaven

Miled hiked today: 18.4 Miles hiked total: 454.5 It rains during the night, but I still sleep well. In the morning I put on some food prep gloves I got in Wrightwood, which keeps my hands dry while I put away my tent. I keep my sleep leggings on, because it’s cold, and it doesn’t […]

PCT Day 33: Hotdogs and Carrots at the North Fork Ranger Station

Miles hiked today: 15.3 Miles hiked total: 436.1 By the morning, the wind has stopped, but it is still cold. Clams makes an effort to wake later so that she can stick with us today, and so her and I get to hike together all morning. We chat about everything – one of the things […]

PCT Day 32: Will It Rain? Won’t It?

Miles hiked today: 14.2 Miles hiked total: 420.8 Surprisingly, when we wake up it is not raining. We had all been preparing for it, but the morning is beautifully clear and cold. Most of us take the opportunity to have a lie in – I wake up around 7am, but Clams has already packed up […]

PCT Day 31: One Month On Trail

Miles hiked today: 17.4 Miles hiked total: 406.6 I sleep on one of the sofas in the living room of the airbnb, but not very well. I wake to the sound of Odin making coffee, and then he makes us our favourite blueberry pancakes. I have woken up this morning with the physical manifestations of […]

PCT Day 30: The Night It Snowed In The Desert

Miles hiked today: 0 Miles hiked total: 389.2 In the night I hear a thud on or around my tent. I am immediately awake – did a guy line snap, and now my tent is going to come down around me? No, all the guy lines seem intact. But the tent walls do seem to […]

PCT Day 29: The Mountain Doesn’t Care

Miles hiked today: 17.7 Miles hiked total: 389.2 Clams wakes us all up, as we have agreed to be ready to leave by 6:30, and stick together to tackle the snowy Mount Baden-Powell. As we get ready, we joke about badges or certificates you could earn on the PCT. Like, for example, “Well done! You […]

PCT Day 28: Nero-ing With Our Wrightwood Trail Angel

Miles hiked today: 2.2 Miles hiked total: 371.5 Today was the perfect antidote to the stresses of yesterday. I wake having slept comfortably on sofa cushions on the floor at Chris’ house, definitely my most comfortable sleep on trail. Everyone is still asleep so I write my blog for a bit, as I was too […]

PCT Day 27: A Day Of Rain, Wind, And Hail

Miles hiked today: 22.1 Miles hiked total: 369.3 I wake to the sound of my tent flapping in the wind. It has been raining for about an hour. I listen to the rain and wind beating my tent about, as I enjoy the warmth of my sleeping bag for a while, pondering how best to […]