To celebrate the beginning of Summer, and to take advantage of the long days, I drove up to Massachusetts to knock off a long-held goal of mine, a traverse, and back, of the Blue Hills park. Map is here. The Blue Hills are a 7000 acre preserve just outside Boston, in fact, for much of…
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PCT Hiking by the numbers
Now that I’m off trail and home for a bit, I’ve been doing some thinking about the trip as a whole. People ask me “what was it like?” and I reply, lamely, “awesome.” It’s hard to summarize or boil the experience down in a way that doesn’t trivialize it, but I’m going to try. Since…
Highlight reel of pictures from my 2018 PCT thruhike
I’ve put together an admittedly self-indulgent highlight reel of pictures from my hike. My goal was to do 1 picture per day, but the video would have been more than 10 minutes log; something I think nobody wants to sit through. You may recognize the background music, which I did not write or perform and…
PCT156 – the Canadian border
(With apologies to Redford and von Sydow) Sep 12 We left Harlequin Bridge around 7, and got to High Bridge by 930. Faceplant saw a bald eagle fly slowly down the river here. Dammit! 7th National Park. My luck held for almost the entire day, we only had rain for about 10 minutes. Once we…
PCT152 – Stehekin, the end of the road
Short post, more words than pics this time. There’s really only so many pictures you can take in 1 day. But its time for some contemplation and a day in the life stuff. I’m at mile 2572, or another way, just 80 miles to go. There’s a reroute of 21 miles off trail that will…