July 24th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 27 Start Location: Mile 1434 End Location: Mile 1461 End Location GPS: 41.12680, -122.00214 An unplanned longest day yet. Carolyn’s foot seems to be at a maneagable level but still isn’t quite right. She says it feels like a paper cut sometimes and sometimes like a piece of glass is […]
July 23rd, 2016 Miles Hiked: 18 Start Location: Mile 1416 End Location: Mile 1434 End Location GPS: 42.10168, -121.78822 Low mileage day on account of Carolyn’s foot. We stopped early to let it rest. Hopefully it will be better tommorrow. It was very hot today, like one of those Excelsior hand driers was blowing on
July 22nd, 2016 Miles Hiked: 10 Start Location: 1406 End Location: 1416 End Location GPS: 41.00650, -121.64427 We woke up early and headed 3 miles to the road to hitch into Burny. Once there we decided to grab some breakfast at a close by diner before going to the grocery store, to prevent buying up
July 21st, 2016 Miles Hiked: 24 Start Location: Mile 1382 End Location: Mike 1406 End Location GPS: 40.94510, -121.54641 Interesting and hot day traversing the rest of Hat Creek Rim. We could see Mount Shasta most of the day. Apparently it is the second highest mountain in the Cascade Range (Ranier is the tallest) and
July 20th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 19 Start Location: Mile 1363 End Location: Mile 1382 End Location GPS: 40.75240, -121.40661 We didn’t have any trees fall on us last night so we started the day ahead of the game (we camped in a semi burn area- not recommended). The terrain was very easy as we made
July 19th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 25 Start Location: Mile 1338 End Location: Mile 1363 End Location GPS: 40.56309, -121.44291 Today we entered Lassen Volcanic National Park. There were a few interesting thermal features including a geyser which was just steam comming out of a big hole in the ground and a larger geothermal lake that
July 18th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 9 Start Location: Mile 1329 End Location: Mile 1338 End Location GPS: 40.35156, -121.35097 We both had a miraculous nights sleep in the soft and plush King sized bed. We went out to breakfast and then resupplied at the grocery store and were back on trail around noon. I think
July 17th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 19 Start Location: Mile 1310 End Location: Mile 1329 End Location GPS: 40.26150, -121.33887 We passed the PCT midpoint today. At the halfway mark sat an unassuming stone pillar with “PCT Midpoint” etched on the front side, and the equidistant mileage to Canada on the south facing side and Mexico
July 16th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 26 Start Location: Mile 1284 End Location: Mile 1310 End Location GPS: 40.15263, -121.43745 We both had a horrible nights sleep as the room we were in was unbearably hot most of the night. Even with the windows open there was no breeze and the tropical like air remained entombed
July 15th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 19 Starting Location: 1265 End Location: 1284 End Location GPS: 40.00923, -121.22983 We started with another climb from Bucks Summit after making a deposit at the outhouse. It’s weird how I’ll hold my bowels even though I really need to go just to use a crappy outhouse and not have