These three days had us walking a low elevation alternate on the foothills around the snowy Olympic Mountains. We walked through S’Klallam and Coast Salish ancestral lands. Day 9 – Alternate Mile 43.9 – Bike trail walking We continued east…
This stretch of trail took us through the rainforest, then high into the snow-covered Olympic Mountains, and then down out of the mountains to lower (and safer) elevation. We walked through S’Klallam and Coast Salish ancestral lands. Day 6 –…
These three days took us from the ocean to the rainforest! The PNT is a relatively new national scenic trail, as compared to the PCT or even CDT. We had some gravel road walking, as it is not fully built…
And we’re off on the Pacific Northwest Circuit! This route will bring us approximately 2,700 miles from the Pacific Ocean, to the Rocky Mountains, to the source of the Columbia River, and then we’ll hop in our homemade canoe and…
We have minimized gear and are using lightweight equipment for our 2022 PNC thruhike and thrucanoe. We both have base weights of a little over 10 lbs, which includes snow equipment for adverse conditions.
Here is our Creamy Spaghetti recipe! We ate this on our walk from Mexico to Canada on the Continental Divide Trail in 2021. We liked it so much that we will bring it again on our upcoming Pacific Northwest Circuit -- 4 months and 2,700 miles by foot and canoe!
Food is constantly on our minds while we are on outdoor adventures! Considering that we burn anywhere from 3,500 to 4,500 calories a day while thruhiking, that shouldn’t be surprising. Instead, it gives us lots of motivation during the offseason…
We love data! We have been clocking and recording our outdoor activities with GPS trackers for years, so of course we did the same on the Continental Divide Trail. We both wore GPS watches and step counters and used them religiously. We already posted a map of our CDT thruhike showing our precise location every moment of the walk, but now we’ve had a chance to download and process the data. In this post we dissect and highlight the numbers from our walk.
The CDT was our second major thruhike. After finishing the PCT in 2018, we loved looking back at our photos, but we realized the few videos we took did an even better job of bringing the trail back to life.…
This map was made using our daily GPS data from our 2021 CDT thruhike, recorded with Renee's Garmin Fenix 5 watch. It provides trail-level resolution of every step we took and every place we camped.
We compiled everything we’ve learned from thousands of miles of hiking into this guide and recipe book! We hope you enjoy it!
-Renee and Tim
