PCT Day 95, Death Canyon Creek to South Fork Kern River, 25 miles
When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win. – Steffi Graf I’m sick of being cold. I’m cozy and warm in Big Greenie, but when it gets light, I have to get moving and every task is a frozen misery – changing my clothes, packing my […]
PCT Day 94, Siberian Pass Junction to Death Canyon Creek, 24 miles
One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. – Virginia Woolf It’s not quite as bitter cold overnight, but I’m not exactly leaping out of my warm bag. And it was not stars last night, but the new moon setting in the western sky […]
PCT Day 93 Tyndall Creek to Siberian Pass Junction, 20 miles
The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand I sleep cozily, the creek singing a lullaby, but early in the morning, the temperature drops and I dive deeper under Big Greenie. I hear the men faffing about before it’s light and once I stick out […]
PCT Day 92, Rae Lakes to Tyndall Creek, 20 miles
The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world see us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world. – Arlene Rankin It was a bitterly cold night by the lake. I wore all my clothes – including rain gear – and while I never shivered, […]
PCT Day 91, South Fork Kings River to Rae Lakes, 17 miles
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want. – Madonna Icy snow hit the alicoop through the night, making a hissing sound. I looked out at night and saw it accumulating, so I pulled my sneakers, with my dusty socks stuffed in, closer under […]
PCT Day 90, Middle Fork Kings River to South Fork Kings River, 20 miles
Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out. – Anita Roddick The wind picked up at night, shooting down the canyon and rattling the alicoop. It wasn’t really cold, but things are […]
Trail Update – Sierra Nevada
A surprise text popped up on my phone last Sunday: ‘Donahue Pass!! on the JMT’. It was from Alison of course. She had managed to find a cell signal at what is the highest point on her trek so far. A few more messages quickly followed…
PCT Day 89, South Fork San Joaquin River to Middle Fork Kings River, 21 miles
You grow up the day you have the fit real laugh at yourself. – Ethel Barrymore Making breakfast and packing up, I hear some twigs snap and look over towards the trail as a bear saunters by. He’s uninterested in my Clif bars and knows my coffee mix is subpar, so saunters right on by. […]
PCT Day 88, Bear Creek trail to stream near South Fork San Joaquin River (via Muir Trail Ranch) 18 miles
My best successes came on the heels of failures. – Barbara Corcoran I allow myself a bit more delicious sleep next to my private waterfalls wrapped up in Big Greenie, so lofty and cozy, it feels like I’m cuddled in with a warm creature. Rich invited me for breakfast and this hungry hiker has no […]
PCT Day 87, stream near Mono Creek to Bear Creek junction (via VVR & Bear Creek trail) 14 miles
Champions keep playing until they get it right. – Billie Jean King Something fell on the tent just as I was falling asleep. It banged so hard, fast and loud that I squealed. No damage at all and no evidence of any particular object either. It was probably just a cone, a piece of bark […]
