Tag: pct 2017
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Bad Stomach – Day 45: Tyler Horse Canyon to Tehachapi
PCT miles: 541.5 to 558.5 Miles: 17 I don’t get up early and neither does Rawhide. We sleep in and get moving around 630 and 7. Mountain passes me but I catch him again on a break and we muse about how fast the shade disappears. The climb isn’t as bad as I expected but […]
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Shade Sleeping – Day 44: Cottonwood Creek Bridge to Tyler Horse Canyon
PCT miles: 534.9 to 541.5 Miles: 6.6 Rawhide and I mutually don’t get up to go hike a few more miles. Instead I sleep until the sun starts heating up my tent, so I move my tent and sleep some more until it comes for me again. Then I pack up my tent and just […]
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The LA Aqueduct – Day 43: Wee Vill Market to Cottonwood Creek Bridge
PCT mile: 517.6 to 534.9 Mikes: 17.3 I wake up around 630 and go to the market for breakfast. I eat French toast, eggs, hasbrowns and sausage. I am so thankful for this grill being here. I sit with Rawhide, Twerk and several others from the group. Twerk to Rawhide: “I saw you looking at […]
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Wee Vill Market – Day 42: Sawmill Camp to Wee Vill Market (near Hiker Town)
I don’t sleep well. My mind is racing until late and once I fall asleep I wake frequently. I hear Cadi (I was still spelling her name wrong) and Hobo start moving in the dark and think they’re getting ready to go when I realize it’s only 2:30 am so I go back to sleep. […]
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First Cowboy Camping – Day 38: Hiker Heaven to Hilltop
Pct miles: 454.4 to 469.5 (+1 from Hiker Heaven) Miles: 16.1 I woke up early. I slept in the trailer so I didn’t have to pack my bag in the morning, but that also meant I had to try to sleep with people talking late into the night, so it wasn’t the best night’s sleep […]
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Gone to Hiker Heaven – Day 36: Acton KOA to Hiker Heaven
PCT miles: 444 to 454Miles: 10 A train goes behind the KOA and went through several times last night which wasn’t super pleasant. Around 5:15 I woke up and just laid in my tent. Lynn wanted to go to breakfast and managed to find us a free ride with a guy who was headed to […]
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The Best Magic – Day 33: Islip Trailhead to Sulphur Springs Campground
PCT miles: 386.1 to 406.7 (+1 mile of detour)Miles: 21.6 I don’t sleep well, waking every hour or so. I think it’s because it’s warm out, maybe 65 or 70 degrees. I finally start getting my things together around 515 and am on the trail by 6. Maybe I’ll do 20 today, I think. It’s […]
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Carrying It Up The Mountain – Day 32: Grassy Hollow Visitor Center to Islip Saddle Trailhead
PCT miles: to 386.1 Miles: 15.7 I woke up in the morning to a dream that my brothers, Mark and I were all living in my mother’s house but my mother was dead and we were all half-pretending she wasn’t. I was trying to figure out where everyone should go – should we all move […]
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Back to the Mountains – Day 29: Swarthout Canyon to Guffy Campground
PCT miles: 347.2 to 364.4 Miles: 17.2 I didn’t sleep great because it was a pretty warm night. Got started around 6 because we were anticipating a hot day and an all-day climb. The first part of the day was pretty warm and the climb was tough – steeper than I expected and also carrying […]
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Long and Flat-ish -Day 27: Deep Creek DamOffshoot to Silver Wood Lake Campground
PCT miles: 313 to 328 Miles: 15 As I was eating breakfast (bagel and cream cheese) in my tent this morning, Hobo and Caddy (I’ve been spelling her name wrong) walked by and saw me. Apparently they got a good laugh out of that – they seem to catch me when my mind is exclusively […]
colleen stinchcombe 