PCT

March 2017

Hang test

Food prep

Desert gear

25,000 calories

April 2017

Question: how do maildrops work?

And we're off!

Next stop: Canada!

Lake Morena campground

Mt. Laguna!

Warner Springs by Saturday

My first 30!

Warner Springs

Mike's Place

May 2017

My hiker family

Paradise Valley Café

Idyllwild: first town stay

My first near-o!

San Jacinto peak: first real summit

Wind, wind, and more wind

I didn't see this coming

Big Bear Lake: shower #2

Zero #1: Big Bear Lake

Mile 275

Knee pain, go away; come again another day

Hot springs!

Silverwood Lake

McSlumber Party

Snow in the desert? Again?

Zero #2: Wrightwood

So many mountains

Frogs and Poodle Dog Bush

This is the desert I was expecting

Hiker Heaven

The desert routine

I asked for this one

Aqueduct Day

T-hacha-P

Zero #3: PT appointment day!

Zero #4: Tehachapi resupply

First shaky steps

This desert is getting old

Peanut's first thirty!

The dry stretch is over! ... ?

The end of the desert is in sight!

June 2017

Kennedy Meadows, at last

... and into the Sierras we go!

A taste of what's to come

No major snow so far...

First real Sierra day!

First creek crossings in the Sierras

Whitney Day!

The price of admission

Forester Pass

Zero #5: Bishop

Zero #6: Bishop

Once more unto the breach, dear friends

Glen Pass

800 miles!

Pinchot Pass

Mather Pass

Muir Pass

Bear Creek Detour

Vermilion Valley Resort

Back on the PCT!

The mid-Sierras

JMT Detour

Two PCT passes!

Yosemite Valley

Zero #7: Yosemite Valley

Hetch Hetchy Alternate: day 1

Hetch Hetchy Alternate: day 2

Hetch Hetchy Alternate: back to the PCT!

Goodbye, High Sierras!

Zero #8: Bridgeport

July 2017

Welcome to the PCT, Jessica!

The snow is ending..?

Markleeville

Independence Day!

Tahoe!

Echo Lake

Zero #9: Tahoe City

Zero #10: Tahoe City

Tahoe mountains

Fast trails!

Donner Pass

Boring trails

Sierra City

My first forty!

Bucks Lake

Belden

PCT Midpoint!

Zero #11: Chester

Lassen National Park

Old Station

Burney Mountain Guest Ranch

Burney Falls State Park

Hill climbing

Castle Crags

Three months

Trinity Alps

Russian Wilderness

Etna

Zero #12: Etna

Marble Mountain Wilderness

The Pacific Northwest

August 2017

Seiad Valley

Oregon!

Ashland

Zero #13: Ashland

Hyatt Lake

Fish Lake

Zero #14: Fish Lake to Medford to Roseburg to Oakland

Mt Thielsen

Shelter Cove

Stormy Lake

Elk Lake Resort

Big Lake Youth Camp

Skipping Jefferson

Winter is coming

Timberline Lodge

Last day in Oregon!

Cascade Locks

Zero #15: Portland

Washington!

Slow and steady

Eclipse Day

Trout Lake

Goat Rocks Wilderness

White Pass

Mt Rainier National Park

Norse Peak

Washington: ups and downs

Snoqualmie Pass

Alpine Lakes Wilderness

Still got it

Stevens Pass

September 2017

Leavenworth

Glacier Peaks Wilderness

Switchbacks

Less than 100 miles!

Stehekin

Washington passes

Final PCT day!

Canada!

Manning Park

September 2018

One year later