Going home

Going home

Almost five months since we flew to San Diego to start the long walk home, we walked into Snoqualmie Pass, a ski resort only 60 miles east of Seattle on Interstate 90. The few days prior we had some of our best days on the trail – more mushrooms than we’d seen in that short…

The Fall Equinox

The Fall equinox this year not only signals the change of seasons, but for us the change of setting and lifestyle as we wind up our time on trail and prepare to move back indoors for the winter. The first four months of our trek on the PCT felt like perpetual summer. We had incredible…

The Oregon Trail: smoke, rain, mushrooms, and kindness

The Oregon Trail: smoke, rain, mushrooms, and kindness

When researching the PCT there wasn’t much said online about the section in Oregon. Once we started getting within a couple hundred miles of the state, most of the talk was that Oregon is “flat & fast” – almost like a brief buffer between the spectacular scenery of Northern California and Washington. There’s even an…