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 […]

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 […]