The Pacific Crest Trail

Waking up, I realized we’d pulled it off. Due to the bullshit permit system, it was sort of illegal for us to camp at the main backpacking campground. But no one caught us, so there’s ...

We got to Tuolumne early in the morning, with time for breakfast while we waited for the shuttle into Tuolumne Valley. I had a pint of ice cream and a microwaved burrito to start the day. The ...

Due to us heading into Yosemite Valley tomorrow and the fact that we were already close to the place, we actually had a short day. Long breaks every couple of miles, only 1500 feet of uphill, this is ...

We got a slow start back to trail. By the time we got out of the Airbnb, through the 3 shuttles and out of Red’s Meadow, it was 1pm. I briefly saw Jesse and the other Belgians heading into ...

Another exhausting zero. From Red’s Meadow, we took three different shuttles to get to Mammoth. Beetle and Shield (previously Pants, previously Andy, named for his heroic effort to save Hanna ...

I feel light! Almost all my food is gone and I’m flying the last miles to Red’s Meadow, our next rest stop. On the way, I found Fitz and we hiked together for a while. Mash set off early ...

Long day, I walked most of it on autopilot. We’re all tired and tired of trail food. This long carry weighs hard. Many places we go to are swarming with mosquitoes in numbers I didn’t ...

Onwards it is! After a freezing night that cost us all some sleep, we continued. There was a little side trip on the horizon: the hot springs near Muir Trail Ranch called Blarney Hot Springs. On the ...

Muir Pass had an infamous reputation. Several miles before and after the pass, the trail was covered in slushy snow, according to what we’d heard, meaning there would be postholing for a long ...