PCT Day 48: This Post Is Brought To You By Ibuprofen

Miles hiked today: 24.5 Miles hiked total: 530.8 I wake to see that Odin’s tent has collapsed on him in the night, and he is not amused. I also see that Goat Disco must have turned up during the night, as he is sleeping peacefully on his groundsheet, a few feet away from us. I […]

PCT Day 47: Easy Peasy P-C-Teasy*

Miles hiked today: 23 Miles hiked total: 606.3 I wake up at 5:15, when it first starts getting light. As it was dark when I rolled into camp yesterday, I didn’t get to see who was camping alongside me, but now I see some familiar faces. It takes a while to get ready this morning […]

PCT Day 46: Getting Back Into Hiking Is Tough

Miles hiked today: 16.8 Miles hiked total: 583.3 We wake up at 7 and enjoy our last morning relaxing at Brenda’s. I eat a breakfast of leftover pastries from the bakery, which I couldn’t finish yesterday, and then I take my time packing up all my stuff. We are hiking out today, Odin, Clams, Goat […]

PCT Days 43, 44 and 45: A Long Stay In Tehachapi

Miles hiked: 8 Miles hiked total: 566.5 Here are some things that happened during my zero and nero days in Tehachapi. Brenda’s immense kindness and patience with us continues, as she hosts hikers every night here. She never turns anyone away, and she doesn’t accept donations. We help out with the cooking and cleaning – […]

PCT Day 42: Sending All My Love To The Tehachapi Trail Angels

Miles hiked today: 13.3 Miles hiked total: 558.5 By the time I wake up at 6:10, Clams has already left. I sleep in a little longer, as I haven’t slept well the past few nights, then I start packing up around 6:45. Goat Disco wakes up and I tell him that he can have 20 […]

PCT Day 41: Joshua Trees And Wind Turbines

Miles hiked today: 16.7 Miles hiked total: 545.2 We wake up at 4am with our sleeping bags covered in condensation. I have slept well, just not enough. But it’s going to be hot today, so we need to get hiking! I pack away in the dark, and then we set off together, still following the […]

PCT Day 40: Hiking The LA Aqueduct On My Birthday

Miles hiked today: 10.9 Miles hiked total: 528.5 Today it’s my 26th birthday! I wake up early not having slept well at all. When the store opens at 7, Bluebear goes to get a chocolate muffin and some birthday candles, and everyone who slept in this strange little bare room sings happy birthday to me. […]

PCT Day 39: Won’t You Take Me To… Hikertown?

Miles hiked today: 24.2 Miles hiked total: 517.6 The wind blows all night, and so when I wake up, there is no condensation on my tent. I miss my alarm – I seem to always miss my alarm – because my watch is not loud enough, and it is always buried under several layers of […]

PCT Day 38: Leaving the Casa De Luna Vortex

Miles hiked today: 15.2 Miles hiked total: 493.4 At some ungodly morning hour, I am woken by the high-pitched yipping of a pack of coyotes running through the forest. I go back to sleep and wake properly at 6:15, just in time for pancakes. The rain has stopped, but the entire mesh of my tent […]

PCT Day 37: An Unexpected Zero

Miles hiked today: 0 Miles hiked total: 478.2 During the night I wake to the sound of wind and rain outside. When I wake up properly in the morning, the weather is truly miserable. Rainy and windy and cold, and we are not even in the mountains here. But pancakes are served every morning from […]