Evan’s Southbound Pacific Crest Trail Thru-hike 2019
Trail photos and journal updated whenever I’m in a town with WiFi. Also on Instagram: @han_sobo_
Readers, I’ve been neglectful of you. I haven’t posted on here in a while. I have been uploading photos to my Instagram account though. For more frequent updates you can follow me: @han_sobo_Since it’s been a while, this is gonna be a twofer (hence the double title). The Sierras were incredible. Incredibly beautiful, incredibly difficult …
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We have been forced into taking a couple more involuntary rest days. This time it was because of weather and not injury (which was the reason for our 8 day involuntary rest in Oregon). On the plus side, we are due for 7-10 days of nice weather starting tomorrow. With Oden on our side, that …
After a week off trail and a couple weeks of hiking at lower than average miles, we are back up to speed. We decided to skip ahead about 350 miles on the trail to get us into a reasonable hiking distance of the Sierras. Maybe we will come back and complete the section we skipped …
Oregon is commonly referred to as “flat” by PCT hikers. This is relative. Compared to Washington, or the Sierras, there is much less elevation gain and loss. Compared to Kansas, you’re still walking up and down mountains pretty much the whole time. PCT hikers also will say Oregon is boring. Although there are not as …
Made it just over 400 miles. Goat rocks was amazing. We saw a mountain goat majestically climb a peak but weren’t fast enough with the camera. Saw our first glimpse of Mt. Hood which means we’re almost in Oregon!
We have hiked out of the clouds and into mosquito swarms. We are now hiking 20+ miles a day, are eating 6 meals a day and our feet have grown a half size, so we’re basically hobbits. We’re about 350 miles in. 2,300 to go.
While it may be summer in the rest of the country, in the Cascades of Northern Washington it is still early spring. We spent at least 4 of the last 7 days walking through low hanging clouds/fog/mist and the other 3 we saw a mixture of sun and showers. We also saw our first bear …
We made it from Hart’s pass, to the Canadian border, and back and then further South to Stehekin, WA. We’ve hiked a total of 112 miles over 8 days. We saw mountain goats, marmots, ground hogs, deer, lots of chipmunks and birds, as well as many wildflowers and snow capped Mountain views. We got rained …
This is what I’ll be heading out with for the first week of hiking the pacific crest trail. I will be starting on June 26th at the northern terminus, the Washington/Canada border, and heading Southbound towards the southern terminus, the California/Mexico border. Food, toiletries, fuel, first aid, batteries, etc. will all be resupplied at stores …
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Evan’s Southbound Pacific Crest Trail Thru-hike 2019