Pacific Crest Trail
Day 138 Mile 2454.2 – 2421.6. The sound of rain falling woke me up in the middle of the night. It would come in waves pattering softly against my tent. I went in and out of sleep until I was jolted awake by a large rock fall from somewhere across the lake. When...
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Mile 2425.3 – 2454.2 Mig Lake. The wind blew with a welcome fury last night. As I lay in my tent, the evergreens bent and groaned with each successive gust. In my sheltered spot, only occasional gusts came to ruffle the flaps of my tent. When I woke in the...
Pacific Crest Trail
Mile 2397.7 – 2425.3. The mountains rose like specters in the smoke. Gnarled heads turned toward the sky as their bodies sunk into the sea of smoke. We left camp and waded through the smoke arms stretched out to keep our balance as we navigated through rough...
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Mile 2390.6 2397.7. When I woke up, I couldn’t tell if it was smokey or cloudy. The sky was a dead lifeless gray devoid of feeling. Where have the passionately colorful sunrises of the desert gone? I packed up quickly and left Sand Lake behind. Bedazzled was in...
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Mile 2274 – 2295. I was playing with the idea of doing some astrophotography in the wee hours of the morning, but when I woke up the stars were dim barely discernable dots in the sky and it smelt like a BBQ. Smoke from the fires behind us and ahead of us had...
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Mile 2247 Lava Spring – 2274. Last night, I heard someone talking about camping at Old Snowy. I hadn’t realized we were so close to the Goats Rock Wilderness, which is regarded as one of the finest sections of the PCT. Finally, we would get some great...
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Mile 2226 – 2247 Lava Spring. We woke up on the lawn next to the General Store in Trout Lake and walked over to the local cafe for breakfast. We met two inquisitive parents who asked us all about our hike. It turns out they were the parents of Hatchet, a...
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Mile 2204.7 – 2226. Our goal was to get into Trout Lake before the post office closed at 4:00 on Friday. Bedazzled had new shoes waiting there, and it wouldn’t reopen until Monday at 9:00. It was a race so to speak. We also had a food resupply to pick up,...
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Mile 2174.1 to 2204.7. Pattering, the rustle of leaves, scurrying, the feeling of little feet running across my arm. I shot up and waved my arm frantically. Bedazzled was sitting up. Something was in my hair!” she yelled. Rodents! I shivered with the hebe...
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Bridge of the Gods Mile 2144.6 to Trout Creek 2174.1. I had long talked with my mom and little sister about meeting up on trail sometime after the solar eclipse. They were both going to be on the west coast and the plan was for them to drive over to meet me somewhere...
Pacific Crest Trail
Mile 2113 to 2144.6 Today, we woke up and had one thing on our minds, Cascade Locks. It is a small community on the Columbia River and is home to the Bridge of the Gods, which connects Oregon and Washington. With that on our mind, we walked all day and didn’t...
Pacific Crest Trail
Day 123 Mile 2084 to 2092. We woke up in Bend with the trail on our mind. Today, we would complete the final leg of our detour around the fire closures in the Three Sisters and Mt. Jefferson Wildernesses. We packed up and took a city bus to the highway bus stop. We...
