We are about 80 miles short of the halfway point now. Things are going well and we are heal­ing up and tak­ing a few days off for Christ­mas. We should be back out on the trail head­ing south the after­noon of the 28th if all goes as planned. Now since it is Christ­mas and we […]

We made it to Castel­la in the rain around 8pm tonight (about 1160 miles in now). It’s been a typ­i­cal stretch with snow or rain every day. The weath­er fore­casts were only call­ing for 1–3 inch­es each day and night, but things changed a lit­tle last night when we woke up this morn­ing to 1–2 […]

We made it to Etna, about 1060 miles into the hike. There had been a lot of talk about the storm that came through this past week. It did rain a bunch and was windy, and dropped a bit of snow up high, but all in all I don’t think this storm was any worse […]

Link to pic­tures from the last 300 miles: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152983720020628&type=1&l=02af151eb6 Link to Pep­per’s blog entry from Ash­land, OR: http://www.shawnforry.com/Margin_Walker…A_Hikers_Chronicles/Blog/Entries/2014/12/8_A_sense_of_normality.html  

We are now at Fish Lake Resort in south­ern OR. After tak­ing two rest days at Dia­mond Lake Resort a lot of our nag­ging aches and pains have dis­ap­peared and healed. We made good time the last few days and were even able to bust out some 20+ mile days in snow­shoes and with short […]

We are over 800 miles down now and and just north of Crater Lake Nation­al Park. We head to the rim tomor­row for the Oregon/Washington high point. The last few days have been a mixed bag of soak­ing rain with snow on the ground and slop­py, wet going and then chang­ing over and drop­ping a foot […]

We are back in Bend, OR from the orig­i­nal­ly intend­ed spot on the PCT, San­ti­am Pass. Here’s the link to a blog post from Pep­per about the last sec­tion of the trip: www.shawnforry.com then go to blog from 11/19/14, ‘The Times, They Are A Changin’.

We made it to Bend but not as planned. We had planned on com­ing into town from San­ti­am Pass, where the PCT cross­es the road. With the snow­storm a few days ago drop­ping one to two feet of fresh snow and an ice/rain crust on top of it the trav­el has been real­ly slow. In […]

We made it past Mt Hood last night in a howl­ing wind. A friend picked us up and brought us into Port­land for resup­ply, a warm night, and to get orga­nized for the next sec­tions. It was pret­ty nasty around Hood with 45 mph sus­tained winds and gusts over 65. Need­less to say, the wind […]