On April 21, 2018, I set foot on the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650 mile-long footpath that connects Mexico to Canada. What?! Why? Short answer is—for many reasons. To make a short story long, it’s because I love hiking, I wanted to find new perspectives on this whole life thing, if I didn’t do it then, I might never have done it, and because it was AMAZING. Buuut, why are you writing a blog about it? There are a million of these hiking blogs out there. Well, I started the blog on trail as a way to let my family and friends know I wasn’t dead, and to give them an idea of what I was doing. Now that I’m finished with the trail, the blog is a way for me to relive my experience while plodding through daily life. However, if anyone else finds it entertaining, you’re welcome to read and share!

• Getting Ready (how much does a poop trowel weigh?)
• PCT Update 1: Yer a Lizard, Harry
• PCT Update 2: Rattlesnakes and Rainstorms
• PCT Update 3: Roller Coaster of Emotions
• PCT Update 4: Earthquakes are a Good Alarm Clock
• PCT Update 5: Do it for the Frogs
• PCT Update 6: Hot Dogs and Cage Dancing
• PCT Update 7: Don’t Get into a Windowless Black Van… Unless You Really Don’t Want to Walk Anymore
• PCT Update 8: Ice, Ice, Baby- The Desert’s Cruel Farewell
• PCT Update 9: “All Shall Love Me and Despair” – The Sierra Nevada
• PCT Update 10: Bloodsucking Agents of Satan
• PCT Update 11: SOS
• PCT Update 12: Checking Attitudes
• PCT Update 13: Muir and Muir Fun Times
• PCT Update 14: Vacationception
• PCT Update 15: No Pants, No Problem
• PCT Update 16: A Day in the Life
• PCT Update 17: Shallow Grave
• PCT Update 18: The Most Magical Trail
• PCT Update 19: Purple Mountains Majesty
• PCT Update 20: Bears want IHOP, too.
• PCT Update 21: The Donner Party, Trololo, and Funny Hats
• PCT Update 22: Chafe, Chocolate, and Chili
• PCT Update 23: Close Calls
• PCT Update 24: A Butt Mountain-load of Walking and Learning: The Halfway Point!
• PCT Update 25: Bears, Boiling Lakes, Devil Caves, and Root Beer Floats
• PCT Update 26: Babes in Trail-land
• PCT Update 27: ♪ Smoke and No Water ♪
• PCT Update 28: Paying it Forward. And Back. And Forward Again.
• PCT Update 29: We Walked Through a State!
• PCT Update 30: Breaking of the Fellowship
• PCT Update 31: ♫ All By Myself ♫
• PCT Update 32: Random Sparkles
• PCT Update 33: I Would Walk 500 Miles and 500 More and 500 More and 500 More
• PCT Update 34: The Highest Highs and Lowest Lows
• PCT Update 35: ONLY 500 Miles to Go
• PCT Update 36: You Have to be a Goat in Goat Rocks Wilderness
• PCT Update 37: Girls Enjoying Mountains but NOT Rain
• PCT Update 38: Hey, People!
• PCT Update 39: Nothing Special but an Excess of Luck
• PCT Update 40: Aggressively Wholesome Breakfast
• PCT Update 41: Parting Magic
• PCT Update 42: The End
• Epilogue