PNC Days 9-11 – Low Elevation Alternate
These three days had us walking a low elevation alternate on the foothills around the snowy Olympic Mountains. We walked…
PNC Days 6-8 – Into & out of the snow!
This stretch of trail took us through the rainforest, then high into the snow-covered Olympic Mountains, and then down out…
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,…
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,…
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!
Exploring a new route: The “Pacific Northwest Circuit”!
In 2022 we will traverse a route that we’re calling the “Pacific Northwest Circuit”. It will include 1500 miles of…
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…
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.
