Month: August 2018

Tuesday, 7 August 2018

Mike Urich Cabin (305.6) – Tentsite (324.8): 19.2 miles / 354.5 total miles walked

I do not enjoy camping near other people. It’s always too loud. Especially if you really want and need to sleep, they end up chopping wood at 10 pm. At which point I yelled at them. It helped for a while….long enough for me to fall asleep anyway. When my alarm went off at 4:45 I was not a happy camper, but I still packed up and started walking. Cause what else are you going to do, right?

Continue reading “PCT Day 32: Trailversary / Beautiful Burn”

Monday, 6 August 2018

Tentsite (285.5) – Mike Urich Cabin (305.6): 20.1 miles / 335.3 total miles walked

Today was one of the first days where my alarm actually woke me up. Usually I’m awake about 5 minutes before. I really wanted to sleep more, but I packed up and got a move on at 5:25. The first almost 4 miles to the next water went by quickly, even though there were some steep uphill climbs to tackle.

Continue reading “PCT Day 31: Another trail celebrity sighting”

Sunday, 5 August 2018

Mirror Lake (268.3) – Tentsite (285.5): 17.2 miles / 315.2 total miles walked

After all the yelling kids and drunk adults finally calmed down I managed to get a few hours of sleep. I really wanted to ignore my alarm that went off at 5, but I didn’t.

Continue reading “PCT Day 30: Mishaps”

Saturday, 4 August 2018

Snoqualmie Pass (259.5) – Mirror Lake (268.3): 8.8 miles / 298.2 total miles walked

I did sleep reasonably well, and we all kind of woke up around 7. I took a shower, organized unpack and had some of Naked River’s delicious zucchini bread. And then some real breakfast food around an hour later.

Continue reading “PCT Day 29: Escaping the vortex and receiving trail magic”

Monday, 30 June 2018

Tentsite (241.4) – Snoqualmie (259.5): 18.1 miles / 289.4 total miles walked

Considering I was in such pain last night and pretty much squeezed in between the two tents on a slant, I slept well. I saw the sun rise this morning and packed up quickly. I tried hiking in my sleep pants at first, but that only made the chaffing hurt worse.

Continue reading “PCT Day 24: If you ask for an angel….she will show up”

Saturday, 28 July 2018

Tentsite (203.7) – Tentsite by stream (222.6): 18.9 miles / 252.5 total miles walked

Oh my goodness, I actually found a campsite with water that has no mosquitos, dreams really do come true….although still no sign of Sink. But let’s start at the beginning of the day.

Continue reading “PCT Day 22: Durchgeniffelt”

Friday, 27 June 2018

Tentsite (192) – Tentsite (203.7): 11.7 miles / 233.6 total miles walked

I woke up a few times during the night and always there were swarms of mosquitoes around me. Thankfully my headset actually keeps the buggers away. At around 6 I packed up and got the hell out of there. The trail was pretty OK today and the mosquitoes weren’t always as bad.

Continue reading “PCT Day 21: Solo slowly”