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Entropy: Final trail days
ByKristiAs we approach our final days on the trail our gear and bodies are starting to show the wear and tear of nearly five months of walking. In just the past week… The inner baffles in Jeremy’s sleeping pad started breaking and mine has a slow leak which has led to some interesting sleeping positions…
The Oregon Trail: smoke, rain, mushrooms, and kindness
ByKristiWhen 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…
Bend to Government Camp
Trail video from our latest section. After a day off in Bend, we got back on trail at Elk Lake. Later in the evening a fire broke out a few miles west of the trail. It was hot, dry, and smoky for a couple days but fortunately the weather turned cooler and we had a…
Truckee to Chester
Background The first part of the PCT is primarily a desert starting at the Mexico border at Campo, Ca. The trail continues north for 250 miles to Big Bear Lake, where it turns directly west towards LA. About 30mi North of LA the trail again heads North, then Northeast another 300 miles to the southern…