Posted in Trip Reports, photos on Sep 4th, 2009
There sits an area that I love to hike, just South of where the long standing free for all clearcuts start on the PCT here in Washington. Our goal this morning was to hike in and kick back all day in a certain meadow waiting for thru’s to come by. And we did just that. [...]
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Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Aug 30th, 2009
Saturday was PCT Day at Cascade Locks in Oregon, where the Bridge of the Gods resides. It is the divider between Oregon and Washington. Our good friends Tom and Tori paced themselves so they would be there for the celebration. Teresa (Dicentra), her daughter, Ford and our friend Jared and I headed down for the [...]
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Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Aug 24th, 2009
Hoosierdaddy had been asking if I would have the time to go and do trail angel-ing for PCT thru hikers this summer. He had injured his leg this month so isn’t able to hike real miles right now. I took him up on it this past weekend and we headed down South to Cascade Locks, [...]
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As we have mentioned before, we are helping out our friends Tom and Tori on their thru-hike of the PCT this summer. I have been doing a few mail drops for them. They have a few areas where on trail resupply is very limited (or cannot be done without a long hitchhike), so on those [...]
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Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear on May 29th, 2009
Not often do I covet someones new gear so badly as I did last night – I was opening up a box that had arrived for my friend Tori, to make sure everything was fine before I shipped it on to her – and wow….I was j-e-a-l-o-u-s of her new pack. A ULA Circuit pack [...]
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Posted in Trip Reports, Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2008
At the end of September (the 27th) we met thru-hiker Wrongway about 7 or so miles South of Snoqualmie Pass on the PCT. I received an email from him this afternoon that let me know he finished up just a couple days ago, on the 22nd. Congrats to doing it! I can only imagine how [...]
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