Mile Marker: 20 Trail Miles: 20 Miles Walked: 22.3 It was 37 degrees inside my tent at 0519. We had camped at Lake Morena campground the night before I was to start my PCT thru hike. Betty’s Mom, BILS and the World Savers, plus Betty and Tucker, would drive me the 15 min it took …
Have you ever thought about something so much, spent such an inordinate amount of time talking about it, thinking about it, researching it that, if you were to be completely honest, you eventually grew kind of sick of it? Weary of It even? I have spent much of the last year thinking about the PCT, …
All the recipes in my backpacking cookbook* have special names. Many are named after the hikers who created them — like Ben’s Chicken and Cheese. While the rest have names relating to famous trails and notable locations along them. For example, Appalachian Trail Jerky and Cascade Stew. But there’s one particular recipe whose name makes …
I’m one of those people for whom the axiom “anything worth doing is worth over doing” was written. If something is important to me, this ethos will, nine times out of ten, guide my actions. In no place is this more apparent than my cooking. Nearly all of the food I’ve prepared for the PCT …