PCT Day 103: Mile 1925.1 to 1950.2
August 13th, 2018 The trail today was very flat. That meant we could walk faster and take longer breaks. We had lunch on the shore of a lake with Sparkles, and a couple of miles later we swam in another…
Category PCT Daily Updates
From May – September, 2018, we thru hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. Now, exactly one year later we are posting our daily journal entries and photos as blog updates. Each post includes our trail journal from the day, a selection of photos taken that day, and GPS information that we recorded as we hiked. Enjoy!
PCT Day 102: Mile 1917.6 to 1925.1
August 12th, 2018 Today we took a “Mountain Nero” with our friends Flame and Notorious ERB at Bobby Lake. I slept in until almost 8am. Tim tried to make pancakes, but they turned into more like fritters because we didn’t…
PCT Day 101: Mile 1906.6 to 1917.6
August 11th, 2018 We woke up soaking wet because of a lot of condensation last night. Maybe we should have expected that since we slept on a dock… While we dried out our sleeping bags, we had breakfast and lunch…
PCT Day 100: Mile 1886.2 to 1906.2
August 10th, 2018 Today was our 100th day on the trail! We passed the 1,900 mile mark. We hiked to Shelter Cove Resort to pick up our resupply package, shower, do laundry, eat, and drink beer. We are stealth camping…
PCT Day 99: Mile 1863.4 to 1886.2
August 9th, 2018 We stopped at a nice lake to fill up water early today. It was a 1.8 mile round-trip detour to get to the lake, but this stretch of Oregon is very dry, so we couldn’t pass it…
PCT Day 98: Mile 1839.9 to 1863.4
August 8th, 2018 Today was a relatively easy day of hiking. We hiked out of Crater Lake NP through a nice forest and up to the highest point on the PCT in Oregon/Washington at 7,572 ft. Oregon has been surprising…
PCT Day 97: Mile 1820.9 to 1839.9
August 7th, 2018 We tried to leave Crater Lake early this morning, but before we knew it we got sucked into the town vortex and were enjoying coffee, a restaurant, and chatting with other hikers. We got onto the trail…
PCT Day 96: Mile 1793.0 to 1820.9
August 6th, 2018 Today we hiked into Crater Lake National Park, the 5th National Park we’ve been through so far on the PCT. We weren’t planning to get to Crater Lake until tomorrow. There was a 20 mile stretch without…
PCT Day 95: Mile 1773.2 to 1793.0
August 5th, 2018 This morning we planned to get out of Fish Lake Resort, where we resupplied, and back to the trail by 7am. Before we knew it it was already 7:30 and we decided to stick around for breakfast…
PCT Day 94: Mile 1752.4 to 1773.4
August 4th, 2018 Today was a berry good day. The first half of the day we walked through a pretty forest. We found lots and lots of blueberries growing along the trail. Yum!! The second half of the day we…
