Mile 380 - 20 Pacific Crest Trail Miles, 3.5 wandering miles Sometimes I find myself thinking... Were the original Pacific Crest Trail planners drunk, pranksters, or just in love with pointless assents and descents? Picture going up 1,000 feet just to go down 1,000 feet then crossing the same highway you did just a half a mile before and you may understand what I am saying here... All part of ...
Pacific Crest Trail
Mount Baden-Powell Summit on the PCT
Mile 370 - 10 Pacific Crest Trail miles, 1.5 wandering milesAfter escaping the Wrightwood town vortex we decided on a few relaxed days of hiking. On the PCT you always go up, down, and around but you rarely summit. Today our "relaxed" day was a rare exception. Of course! Mount Baden-Powell is not all that high per se but fully loaded with supplies and thinking we were going to do an easy ten ...
Freezing To Wrightwood – Best PCT Town Stop
Mile 356 - 13 Pacific Crest Trail Miles, 1.9 wandering miles I woke up knowing today would be a tough start. It was cold and windy and because we had cowboy camped I did not have the tent to block the wind. At some point I just stood up, removed my sleeping clothes, and put on my hiking clothes. It was a very cold one minute process!We had 13 miles and a few thousand feet to climb before ...
Vegetable Garden In The Tent? Why Not!
Mile 335 - 21 Pacific Crest Trail miles, 1.3 wandering milesButterfly woke up a bit frustrated with our tent. It was a wet night and we had a lot of condensation... Something was said like..."we might as well have a vegetable garden growing in here"... Oh well! At least it does not weigh 10 pounds! ;)We hiked the six remaining miles to our next water source... McDonalds! Thankfully we ...
Root Beer Floats On The Trail!
Mile 317 - 19 Pacific Crest Trail miles, .5 wandering milesMore meandering miles today around Silverwood Lake. Eventually we got close enough that we could not resist jumping in.Stopping at the picnic area we had a long lunch enjoying the shade and abundance of water.Not 20 minutes after lunch we came across Coppertone. A traveling trail angel who offered us root beer floats. ROOT BEER ...
Naked In Nature on the Pacific Crest Trail
Mile 298 - 19 Pacific Crest Trail Miles, 1.2 wandering milesWe hit the 300 mile mark!!! 300 miles backpacking on the PCT! It was a beautiful day following deep creek for miles. The sound of water flowing our entire day. After taking an hour lunch by a spring we could not resist taking a side trail to the water. It was hot and the alluring sound finally won us over. We found are own private ...
One Lazy Pacific Crest Trail Day
Mile 284 - 14 PCT trail miles, 1.2 wandering milesThe wind was blowing and the air was cold. A layer of ice was on top of the tent under the rain fly. Actually getting out of the sleeping bag was a bit difficult today... Five miles in we stopped for an early lunch and laid out our tent and sleeping bags to dry. This break was over and hour and it was after 12pm before we resumed hiking. It was ...