Zigzagging its way from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon and Washington the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) boasts the greatest elevation changes of any of America's National Scenic Trails, allowing it to pass through six out of seven of North America's ecozones including high and low desert, old-growth forest and alpine country. Indeed, the PCT is a trail of diversity and extremes. From scorching desert valleys in Southern California to rain forests in the Pacific Northwest, the PCT offers hikers and equestrians a unique, varied experience.
The PCT is both easily accessible and blissfully wild at the same time. Whether you'd like to explore the PCT for weeks on end, or just a weekend, it offers the best of the West - the Mojave Desert, the Sierra Nevada and Mt. Whitney, Yosemite National Park, Marble Mountain and the Russian Wilderness in Northern California, the volcanoes of the Cascades including Mt. Shasta and Mt. Hood, Crater Lake, Columbia River Gorge, Mt. Rainier, and the remote Northern Cascades.
Over the past decade the PCT has become a favorite target of thru-hikers and thru-riders (the hearty souls who attempt to hike or ride an entire long-distance trail in one "season"). Each year, in fact, an average of 300 hikers attempt to cover the full length of the PCT (thru-riders are more rare but increasing in number). Thousands of other hikers and equestrians enjoy this national treasure each year, some traveling only a few miles in the course of a day hike.
All of this information has been lifted straight from The Pacific Crest Trail Association’s website so if you
have other questions about the trail check it out at: http://www.pcta.org/
Prep:
All of this information has been lifted straight from The Pacific Crest Trail Association’s website so if you
have other questions about the trail check it out at: http://www.pcta.org/
Prep:
Southern California
- Day 1, rattles and beestings, aka Hauser Creek
- Day 2, Fred Canyon
- Day 3, stealthy faucet canpground
- Day 4, upper chariot
- Day 5, campsite near mile 82
- Day 6, barrel springs (4/24)
- Day 7, Lake Morena Campground (4/25)
- Day 8 and 9, Lake Morena
- Day 10, lost creek spring (4/28)
- Day 11, Nance Canyon (4/29)
- Day 12, Shady Campsite mile 155 (4/30)
- Day 13, insanely windy campsite at mile 175
- Day 14, Town Day!
- Day 15, Fuller ridge and beyond
- Day 16, Trail Magic!
- Day 17, the Canyon of Mission Creek
- Day 18, Mellow is the name of the game
- Day 19, Big Bear
- Day 20, the bubble is completely broken
- Day 21, Deep Creeks
- Day 22, wait there's a lake where?
- Day 23, A little climbing maybe?
- Day 24, the Amazingness of Wrightwood
- Day 25, and Up the Mountain We Go
- Day 26, Another detour?
- Day 27, Video Game or B Grade Horror Flick?
- Day 28, the Saufleys
- Day 29, Back on the trail
- Day 30, Casa de Luna
- Day 31, 500 miles :)
- Day 32, Escape to Hikertown
- Day 33, Bye Bye Aqueduct, Hello Wind Farm
- Day 34, Now why would they put a wind farm here?
- Day 35, Windmilling
- Day 36, Mountains!
- Day 37, Is it a little chilly today?
- Day 38, Well that's different...
- Day 39, Another day on the trail
Central California (the Sierra's!)
- Day 40, Kennedy Meadows!!!
- Day 41, And away we go, ever so slowly
- Day 42, It's really starting now...
- Day 43, A strange mood in paradise
- Day 44, Happy Whitney Eve
- Day 45, Whitney!
- Real Time
- Day 46, Forester Pass Part 1
- Day 46, Forester Pass Part 2
- Day 47, Independence Resupply
- Day 48, Glen Pass
- Day 49, Pinchot Pass and Mather Pass
- Day 50, Muir Pass
- Day 51, Selden Pass
- Day 52, Silver Pass
- Day 53, Reds Meadow
- Day 54, Tuolumne!
- Day 55, Zero!!!
- Day 56, And back on the trail we go
- Day 57, Benson Pass
- Day 58, You drive me crazy
- Day 59, I Love You PCT
Northern California
- Day 60, So this is Carson Iceberg Wilderness
- Day 61, Now that you mention it, no I don't like walking in wind tunnels
- Day 62, Echo Lake
- Day 63, Desolation Wilderness
- Day 64, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a chairlift
- Wait, who are you guys?
- Day 65, Onwards to Rest Areas and Amazingness
- Day 66, the ultimate vortex
- Day 67, Back to the trail we go
- Day 68, Sierra City
- Day 69, the Sierra Buttes
- Day 70, Onwards to the Feather River!
- Day 71, Bucks Wilderness
- Day 72, Belden Town
- Day 73, Lassen National Forest
- Day 74, Did you say halfway?
- Day 75, Lassen NP and Drakesbad
- Day 76, Old Station
- Day 77, Why yes that is a parade
- Day 78, Living it up on the Hat Creek Rim
- Day 79, Burney Falls
- Day 80, The land of logging roads
- Day 81, Oh Hello Sun
- Day 82, And NorCal goes on
- Day 83, Castella slash Shasta
- Day 84, And around the crags we go
- Day 85, Headcase
- Day 86, And so things change
- Day 87, Solo it is
- Day 88, Guess I'm going to Etna
- Day 89, Onwards towards Seied
- Day 90, Was that a raindrop?
- Day 91, Seied Valley
Oregon
- Day 92, OREGON!
- Day 93, Ashland
- Day 94, Zero in Ashland
- Day 95, Back to the trail
- Day 96, C'mon water sources play nice
- Day 97, Did you say pancakes?
- Day 98, The Devils Thumb
- Day 99, Crater Lake
- Day 100, Along the rim
- Day 101, Highs and Lows
- Day 102, Shelter Cove
- Day 103, Climbing out from Shelter Cove
- Day 104, Entering 3 Sisters Wilderness
- Day 105, Hmm I don't think the trail went that way
- Day 106, Sisters
- Day 107, Youth Camps and Mile Markers
- Day 108, On to Mt Jefferson
- Day 109, Reunion Time
- Day 111, Timberline
- Day 112, Bye Bye Mt Hood
- Day 113, Eagle Creek to Cascade Locks
- Day 114, Hanging out in Cascade Locks
Washington
- Day 115, Holy Huckleberry Batman
- Day 116, Did you say pancakes?
- Day 117, Wait do we actually get to see a mountain?
- Day 118, Adams
- Day 119, Goat Rocks
- Day 120, White Pass
- Day 121, Hey Mt Rainier
- Day 122, Clear Cuts and Dirt Roads
- Day 123, Snoqualmie
- Day 124, Welcome to Alpine Lakes Wilderness
- Real Time Update
- Day 125, I guess a goal would help
- Day 126, Stevens Pass
- Day 127, Zeroing at the Dinsmore's
- Day 128, Back on the trail
- Day 129, Well hello pretty mountains
- Day 130, Wait how many miles left?
- Day 131, Stehekin
- Day 132, Hanging out in Stehekin
- Day 133, Goodbye Stehekin, Hello Mountains
- Day 134, The last full day
- Day 135, CANADA!!!
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