PCT

Here is a chronological list of all my PCT blog posts:

Pre-hike:

Time for my PCT long-distance permit

PCT Training: Snowshoeing to the Tennessee Mountain Cabin

PCT Training: New Pack Test

PCT Training: An adventure in post-holing

PCT food

PCT gear

T minus 1

PCT posts from 2015:

Day 1 — PCT Southern Terminus to mile 22.1

Day 2 — Hot hot heat

Day 3 — A day of blisters and patches

Day 4 — Of alcoves and altitude changes

Day 5 — 100!

Day 6 — First resupply

Day 7 — A long day, extended

Day 8 — A rainy day in the desert

Day 9 — A road walk into Idyllwild

Day 10 — Out of Idyllwild and into the snow

Day 11 — Out of the snow and into the heat

Day 12 — Another scorcher

Day 13 — A slow day on sore feet

Day 14 — Walking for a zero

Day 15 — ZERO in Big Bear

Day 16 — New shoes plus no virus equals off and running

Day 17 — Weekends in the wilderness

Day 18 — Snakes and McDonald’s

Day 19 — So much climb

Day 20 — 400!

Day 21 — When your tent falls down in a sleet storm in the desert

Day 22 — PCT Rule: When you spend the night sleeping in snow, you get to spend the next day sitting in a hot tub

Day 23 — Our longest trail day thus far

Day 24 — Fire closure bushwhack

Day 25 — A shorter day into Hikertown

Day 26 — Aqueduct walking in Mojave Desert

Day 27 — Wind farm walking

Day 28 — The Super Wind Attacks!

Day 29 — From winter to spring in 24 hours in the desert

Day 30 — 30 miles for water

Day 31 — The trail provides

Day 32 — Bye-bye desert

Day 33 — A calorie-rich zero

Day 34 — First day in the Sierras

Day 35 — It’s suddenly winter

Day 36 — Waiting for Whitney

Day 37 — Whitney summit attempt

Day 38 — We wait for snow

Day 39 — Goodbye for now, Sierras

Day 40 — The anticipated zero

Day 41 — The unanticipated zero

Day 42 — The second unanticipated zero

Day 43 — Bike slack 1

Day 44 — Bike slack 2

Day 45 — Slack 3

Days 46, 47, 48 — Three zeros for real life

Day 49 — Back in the saddle

Day 50 — Double pass day

Day 51 — The Sierras eat my energy

Day 52 — A weather win

Day 53 — We still got it

Day 54 — Big day around 10,000 ft

Day 55 — 1000!

Day 56 — Entering Yosemite

Day 57 — Mosquito country 

Day 58 — Fords, mosquitoes and sunshine

Day 59 — Leaving Yosemite

Day 60 — The last of the altitude

Day 61 — New longest-day record

Day 62 — To Truckee

Day 63 — North we go again

Day 64 — As far as we can go

Day 65 — Richard is Smokey the Bear

Day 66 — Back in the land of water carries

Day 67 — Lost in the words

Day 68 — Belden brunch

Day 69 — Halfway to Canada

Day 70 — The heat is on

Day 71 — Sore feet to the Subway Cave

Day 72 — Clouds! …Sometimes!!

Day 73 — “The coolest day of the week”

Day 74 — Bugs: our constant trail companions

Day 75 — A 2-bear kind of day

Day 76 — The heat rolls on

Day 77 — So hot; so climb

Day 78 — A single day’s respite

Day 79 — Trail magic and thunderstorms

Day 80 — Thunderstorms: day 2

Day 81 — When the sun returns, we put down miles

Day 82 — The last resupply in California

Day 83 — OREGON!!

Day 84 — Into Ashland

Day 85 — ZERO!! in Ashland and vicinity

Day 86 — A taste of Oregon

Day 87 — Rain, rain, go away

Day 88 — In the land of lost items

Day 89 — One day to dry between rain storms

Day 90 — Slack pack day 1

Day 91 — Slack pack day 2

Day 92 — Happy three-month trailversary

Day 93 — On our own again

Day 94 — Who likes Cheesits?

Day 95 — A Jonah Day

Day 96 — 2,000 miles!

Day 97 — A smooth and sunny 30

Day 98 — And that makes 120+ in four days

Day 99 — A short day up to Timberline

Day 100 — A zero at Timberline

Day 101 and 102 — The last of Oregon and our 2015 PCT journey

PCT posts from 2016:

Day 103 — From one adventure to the next

Day 104 — First full day back

Day 105 — Big ups and big downs

Day 106 — Trail magic!

Day 107 — Visiting Trout Lake

Day 108 — Off and on, rain

Day 109 — Hiker hunger sets in

Day 110 — Goat Rocks Wilderness

Day 111 — Resupply at White Pass

Day 112 — Ramping up the miles

Day 113 — Hiking with views of Rainier

Day 114 — Heat, not rain

Day 115 — Hiking with showers in mind

Day 116 — Zero!

Day 117 — Back to the woods with a big day

Day 118 — Thoughts on food

Day 119 — Resupply at Stevens Pass

Day 120 — Another hot one

Day 121 — A little rain to answer the sun

Day 122 — How to quadruple your hiking distance

Day 123 — More food thoughts

Day 124 and 125 — Nearo and zero in Stehekin

Day 126 — Oh, heat.

Day 127 — Longest day in Washington

Day 128 — I can see Canada from here

Day 129 — Into Canada