PNC Days 3-5 – Ocean to Rainforest
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…
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PNC Days 0-2 – Back at it!
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…
All of Our Gear on the Pacific Northwest Circuit!
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.
Dehydrated creamy spaghetti for adventures!
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!
Competing to find out who can create better dehydrated backpacking food!
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…
Analyzing the data we collected on the Continental Divide Trail!
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.
New Video on YouTube: Experience the Continental Divide Trail in 10 minutes!
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.…
Complete Map of the CDT: Generated With GPS Data We Collected
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.
How to measure a thruhike? Stats from our 4.5 month CDT adventure!
We completed the Continental Divide Trail from Mexico to Canada! Now we are asking ourselves, how do we measure a thruhike? These are some of the stats that stand out for us: It took us 135 days, from May 3…
Finding and Filtering Safe Drinking Water on Outdoor Adventures
One of our most frightening moments on the Continental Divide Trail was in New Mexico when we arrived at a water source called Adobe Springs to fill up, and the water was gone! The spring had gone dry. We were…