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As I returned to the trail after the hiatus at home, I thought it would be fun to share my ‘typical’ on trail day: Most mornings I’m up around 5:30, usually crashing by 10 or earlier depending on how much I pounded the previous day. It’s generally light now by then, but only rarely do…

From chilly in the mountains to blazing in the desert! I continue to lose the weather lottery game on this adventure, but at this stage it’s simply a central part of the story. Sitting here at my home computer and knocking out these letters with a keyboard in a climate controlled room where I’ve spent…

Wow – this thing is an absolute adventure. Every part. My planned Double Zero (aka a pair of rest days) turned into a Double Double Zero. After a couple days in Rancho Cucamonga, I was resupplied from the local REI and ready to go, taking an Uber back to right where I left off at…

My zero day this round turned into four… I was resupplied and ready to go on Tuesday and then as 2023 has been, it was obstacles galore. The obstacles are at the core of this year’s trail, but built on a foundation of a trail that is inherently difficult. It’s designed to wind through some…

This 76 mile stretch started with a long road walk around Big Bear Lake and a connector trail called Cougar Crest to rejoin the PCT at mile 277, missing the stretch from where I left at 266, but walking almost exactly as far from the lodging (Sierra Blue Suites), I spent two night recuperating at!…

It was fitting to start non-sequentially for the first time on this PCT adventure (and far from the last) as the Class of 23 navigates this year of unprecedented precip. After a month to the day, arriving in Palm Springs, a bid farewell to the city, the TrAsh townhome, and Ashley and Aspen who took…

It’s already been 10 days, but worth flashing back for what may have been the hardest physical day of my life. Friday April 14th: I was camped a mile off the PCT (leaving the trail at mile 163) at a peculiar and beautiful oasis of cedar trees, 6,500 feet above sea level that just appeared…

Back in Palm Springs at Tri and Asher’s place to recoup one more time before continuing north on the trail from mile 209 at I-10/San Gorgonio Pass, a 46 mile skip around the still-snow-hazardous high country of the San Jacinto range. My descent on foot to Palm Springs was one of the most physically exhausting…

Tuesday morning the 6 people in our 4 person tiny house started stirring around 4am and planning different times to head to face the cold and get back out on the trail. The other three that joined us for the night were Alberte from Denmark and Jan and Marcelle from Geissen, Germany (a great evening…

We woke on April Fools Day to ice everywhere. We can’t possibly be a few miles north of the US Mexico border? But we are. So it was waiting until the magic of the sun broke through, spreading frozen rain flies and sleeping bags to dry and a leisurely 10:30am start. I decided 7.5 miles…