September 10th, 2018 Before today, we had experienced almost no rain on the trail. It has rained on us overnight a handful of times, but never hard and never more than a mist/drizzle during the day. We broke that streak…
September 8th, 2018 My college friend Alex and his friend Rachel came to hike with us today. Alex brought a gift of nutritional yeast and Rachel brought a gift of beer–yum! We hiked about seven miles and hung out at…
September 6th, 2018 I woke up early today and had some coffee while watching sunrise. Renee slept in for another hour. Then we had more coffee and ate breakfast with Sky-Blaze and Jazz Hands while taking our time getting started.…
September 4th, 2018 We had a beautiful view of Mt. Rainier from our campsite this morning as we ate breakfast, first coffee, and second coffee. It was very cold when we started hiking, but once we started moving we warmed…
September 2nd, 2018 Since we were on a fire detour yesterday night, we weren’t sure how close/far it was to the next water source when we chose camp. It was getting late and dark, so we ended up camping away…
August 31st, 2018 It rained last night, so this morning our tent was soaking. We packed it up and hiked about seven miles until the sun came out. Then, we took a nice break to dry out our stuff and…
August 29th, 2018 Five miles into today’s hike we hit a pit toilet. I was excited to use it, but Renee prefers to do her business in the woods. We have other preferences on trail that differ: I like to…
August 27th, 2018 We woke up very late today and didn’t start hiking until after nine. That was a good thing because it meant that we got twelve hours of sleep, which we needed after the wedding and our flights…
August 23rd-25th, 2018 We spent three days off of the trail. First, we camped at Oxbow Regional Park with my mom, Jenny, Travis, Penny, Gabby, Danny, Eunhye, Rachel, and Flunker. We ate a lot, drank a ton of percolated coffee,…
August 21st, 2018 Last night we camped on Mount Hood above Timberline Lodge, so this morning we went in to grab coffee and use the flush toilets before hitting the trail. Coffee was free, so we couldn’t resist. The air…
