In 2022 I thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. This page is your one-stop shop for links to my posts!
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Before the Trail
January 2022: I’m Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2022!
March 2022: Why I’m Not Buying a Ton of New Gear for the PCT
On the Trail
Southern California: April 19 – June 2
PCT Day 2: Breakfast, Wildflowers, and Creek Baths
PCT Day 3: Friends, Beer, and Wind
PCT Day 6: Heaps of Flowers and Julian Again
PCT Day 7: Sunrise to Siesta to Sunset
PCT Day 8: Hot, Clean, and Sexy
PCT Day 9: Do It for the Burger
PCT Day 15: What Goes Up Must Come Down
PCT Day 17: What is this, the Amazon?
PCT Day 20: Vibing With My Cucumber
PCT Day 25: Wrightwood and Starting Baden-Powell
PCT Day 26: Baden-Powell and the Frog Detour
PCT Day 27: Roasting and Coasting
PCT Day 32: I Would Walk 500 Miles
PCT Day 33: Hikertown and the Aqueduct
PCT Day 34: Windswept and Suffering
PCT Day 35: Goodbye, Wind Farm
PCT Days 36 and 37: Double Zero in Tehachapi
PCT Day 39: Crawling to Canada
PCT Day 40: Magic and More Wind
PCT Day 42: We Aren’t in Kansas Anymore
PCT Day 43: Farewell to the Desert
PCT Day 45: Zero in Kennedy Meadows
Sierras: June 3-July 2
PCT Day 47: Vitamin I and the Dead
PCT Day 51: Birthday in the Sierras
PCT Day 52: Kearsarge Pass to Bishop
PCT Day 54: Hitchin’ and Bitchin’
PCT Day 55: Wet Feet, Wet Mood
PCT Day 56: I’m Sorry I Am a Slug
PCT Day 60: Cloudy With a 0% Chance of Cheese
PCT Days 62 and 63: Nero and Zero in Mammoth Lakes
PCT Day 66: Neato Mosquito Cheeto Burrito
PCT Day 67: Hilly Rocky Mosquito Hell
PCT Day 69: Hello Northern California
PCT Day 72: Bless U Carson Pass
PCT Day 74: Zero in South Lake Tahoe
Northern California: July 3-July 30
PCT Day 75: Happy Birthday, Tribute!
PCT Day 77: Miles of Mule’s Ears
PCT Day 79: Sierra City Side Quest
PCT Day 81: Long, Strong, and Beautiful
PCT Day 85: Frog Water Part 2: The Refrogening
PCT Day 88: Consume ALL the Liquid
PCT Day 89: Hotter Than a Donkey Eating a Spicy Carrot
PCT Day 91: Burney Falls (And Gets Back Up)
PCT Day 92: Cranky and Confused
PCT Day 94: Nero to Mt. Shasta
PCT Day 95: Throat Heartburn and the Longest 10
PCT Day 101: Swimming with the Salamanders
PCT Day 102: Blowdown City and the Swimming Hole
PCT Day 103: And Then Sh*t Hit the Fan
Oregon: July 31-August 22
PCT Day 106: Slime Mold in a Sauna
PCT Day 107: New and Familiar Faces
PCT Day 111: Lemolo Lake with Wiggs!
PCT Day 113: Oregon is Not Messing Around
PCT Day 115: Lava Hell and Big Lake
PCT Day 118: A Headache Turned into an Adventure
PCT Day 119: Snoozin’ and Cruisin’
PCT Day 121: Timberline Breakfast and the Accidental Detour
PCT Days 123 and 124: Trail Days
PCT Days 125 and 126: Double Zero in Portland
Washington: August 23-September 16
PCT Day 127: Welcome to Washington
PCT Day 128: PCT, But Make It AT
PCT Day 129: Trail Magic and Sawtooth Sunset
PCT Day 131: Pin the Tail on the Passport
PCT Day 134: Coffee and Cheese
PCT Day 135: Books, Bounce Birds, and Blistering Heat
PCT Day 138: Snoqualmie and the Bad News Bears
PCT Day 140: Everything Hurts And I’m Dying
PCT Day 141: Blueberry Fields Forever
PCT Day 143: And Then There Were Two
PCT Day 145: I Would Like to Speak to the Manager of the PCT
PCT Day 146: Blowdown City and the Marmot King
PCT Day 148: All Downhill to Stehekin
PCT Day 149: Chaotic Planning and the Last Night on the PCT
PCT Day 150: Last Steps on the PCT
Sarahmarie Specht-Bird 