We arrived at the Mex­i­can bor­der and south­ern ter­mi­nus of the PCT today at noon. It was anoth­er rainy day and a fit­ting end to our trip (Octo­ber 21, 2014 ‑March 1, 2015). It was great to have peo­ple turn out in the rain to cheer us on to the bor­der. It was an amaz­ing day […]

The next storm start­ed com­ing in today. Winds are blow­ing hard and the clouds start­ed stream­ing over the moun­tains this after­noon. We made it to the small town of Mt. Lagu­na a few hours before the rain start­ed to fall. Now the rain is blow­ing side­ways. It looks as though we are going to have […]

Things are going well. We are in the last week of the hike now with about 180 miles to go. We are think­ing we’ll be at the Mex­i­can bor­der, and south­ern ter­mi­nus of the PCT, on March 1. We had a few inch­es of fresh snow the last cou­ple of days while going over Mt. San […]

We now have com­plet­ed near­ly 2300 miles and have 362 miles remain­ing on the hike. We just com­plet­ed the San Gabriel Moun­tains and one of my favorite sec­tions of the trail through South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. I love the ridge sec­tion around Mt. Baden Pow­ell! We were back in snow for about five miles or so around […]

We got into the small town of Agua Dulce yes­ter­day after­noon. This is a bit­ter­sweet stop. We are now over 2200 miles into the hike with 455 miles remain­ing. But most impor­tant­ly it is great to see the Saufley‘s again after a few years. This has always been one of the best stops on the […]

We made it to Tehachapi Wil­low Springs Road yes­ter­day evening to com­plete the next stretch. We have been on clear trail for the last the the days and have been able to do 30+ miles per day once again. We expect clear trail to con­tin­ue for at least the next 150 miles also. It is […]

We made it through the High Sier­ras and to our first town stop since Mam­moth, about 250 miles ago. It has been a long and tough stretch and we are feel­ing skin­ny and tired. We are eat­ing a lot in town and retool­ing for the final 650 miles. We have now com­plet­ed 2010 miles. Walk­er Pass […]

We made it to Mam­moth yes­ter­day. This was a big mile­stone that we have been dream­ing about for a long time. We have good friends here that we have want­ed to catch up with and it is also the offi­cial start of the High Sier­ra sec­tion. We have been look­ing for­ward to this sec­tion for […]

We made it to High­way 108 today for our resup­ply. 1018 miles to go now. Almost under a thou­sand! The ski­ing has been vari­able with con­di­tions chang­ing by the minute. It looks like we have a good weath­er win­dow to con­tin­ue into the High Sier­ras. Onward into Yosemite tomorrow!

We made it to Echo Sum­mit this evening, under 1100 miles to go. It was an inter­est­ing stretch as this it’s my home turf and I have hiked and skied this stretch count­less times. How­ev­er this was or first stretch ski­ing on this trip. We made good time in com­plet­ing the sec­tion in two and […]