Day 29 (June 7th) Mile 369.3- 383.914.6 miles (23.5km) Today we summited Mt Baden-Powell at 9406ft! This morning we enjoyed a last town breakfast of oven croissants, jam and leftover pasta and caught...
Day 29 (June 7th) Mile 369.3- 383.914.6 miles (23.5km) Today we summited Mt Baden-Powell at 9406ft! This morning we enjoyed a last town breakfast of oven croissants, jam and leftover pasta and caught...
Day 23 (June 1st) Mile 275.0- mile 292.217.2 miles (27.7km) This morning I woke up in a cozy bed next to my mama. I really enjoyed my zeroes with mom and Ken but I was eager to get back on trail, and...
Day 18 (May 27th) Mile 220.1- 236.816.7 miles (28.9km) The very first thing I had to do this morning was cross Whitewater River. Over the past few months, I had seen posts on the PCT Reddit and...
Day 13 (May 22nd) Mile 151.8-164.813 miles + 2 mile side quest to get water (20.9km + 3.2km) Today was a crazy day which started in a warm, dry bed in our AirBnB and ended with us perched atop a...
Day 7 (May 16th) Mile 77.1-91.214.1 miles (22.7km) I woke up clean in a real bed in the Julian Lodge. I ate leftover pizza for breakfast and showered again, even though I didn’t really need it...
Day 0 (May 8-9th): Scout and Frodo’s I was lucky enough to stay with legendary trail angels Scout and Frodo in San Diego before beginning the trail. I was a bundle of nerves as I did my COVID...
COVID-19 here in Ontario has not hit as hard as it has elsewhere in the world, but we have still been under order to social distance since mid-March. I’ve spent the past five months working on my...
After one full year of grad school, I am starting to feel a little burnt out. I’ve reached the grunt work of my project where my day consists mostly of sitting in front of my computer inputting tons...
Our first stop of Day 4 was the Fjallsárlón and Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoons. The lagoons are formed naturally from water melted off of the nearby glacier. Icebergs break away from the glacier and...
On Day 3 we awoke to the croaking of a raven at the base of The Haunted Mountain. It was very on point aesthetically. The mountain is named after Hjörleifur Hróðmarsson, the brother of Ingólfur...