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2025 Summer/Fall Summary & Stats, Year In Review

Desert Winter Thru Hike, Pacific Crest Trail, Pacific Northwest Trail, San Diego Trans County Trail, Sierra High Route, Yosemite High Route

(Scroll to the bottom for a listing of links to all my posts) I respect those that can summarize their yearly recaps into beautiful and tidy video reels on social media, but I’m unfortunately not one of them. I can just barely manage static images, words and numbers…in essence, boring old Luddite stuff. That’s just me, I guess. Even still, I was overwhelmed trying to fit this year into a blog post, but here goes… I’ll start with the figures from my Garmin watch, which says I took a F*#!-ton of steps! My 4,471.8 estimated miles were based on these step counts, thus include every day life movements, not just hiking. But in totaling my hiking miles for the year[…]

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2025 SOBO PCT Days 16-24: The 2nd Half of WA

Pacific Crest Trail

Day 16, Saturday, July 26th, 2025, 0610-1830. Trail Magic. 25 mi to 1\2 mi south of Tacoma Pass, mm 289, 6060’up\5830’down, elevation 3830′. I really enjoyed my fresh-picked blueberries with my breakfast. It was an uneventful morning as I passed by Mirror Lake. There were tons of weekend campers and all I could think of was how many of them must be pooping too near the lake. I saw one kid with a trowel in hand, off to look for a spot to lay down his treasure. The trail was fairly busy through the morning, not surprising for a weekend with great weather. I caught up to and passed Foggy. I figured he was going to be way ahead of me,[…]

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2025 SOBO PCT Days 7-15: Stehekin to Snoqualmie

Pacific Crest Trail

Day 7: Thursday, July 17th, 2025, 0900-1900. Stehekin Bakery21 miles to Miners Cabin trail junction, mm 101.6, 6050’up\2170’down, elevation 5500′. It was a peaceful night in the woods. I’m pretty sure no one ever knew I was there, just off the road in my camo tent. I love stealth camping, especially when it earns me such an advantage. Due to my strategic planning, I arrived at the bakery by 6 am. If you aren’t already in the know, the Stehekin bakery is one of the top 5 highlights of the entire PCT. The owner, Cragg Courtney, was already inside getting ready and invited me in to grab a coffee, use the bathroom and charge electronics. He was so kind and we[…]

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2025 SOBO PCT Days 0-6: Ross Lake to Canada to Stehekin

Pacific Crest Trail, Pacific Northwest Trail

Since I previously published daily blogs for my 2018 SOBO PCT thru-hike, I decided to take a bit of a break my second time around. Earlier in 2025, I posted weekly to bi-weekly summaries after my PCT desert section hike, and so I continued taking notes in this format over the summer. Here are my accounts, derived from those notes, plus pictures. I edited some of the days to be pretty detailed and lengthy for my own memories’ sake, while other days are more in note format…sorry for the inconsistency. Additionally, just as I started the PCT southbound for the second time, my episode on Backpacker Radio (The Trek) came out. I did the interview with Chaunce and Zack in[…]

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Pacific Crest Trail 2025, Round 2

Desert Winter Thru Hike, Pacific Crest Trail

This summer I hope to complete the remaining 3 sections that I have left in hiking the PCT a 2nd time. This has been a goal since my first thru-hike in 2018. Initially, I envisioned that I would thru-hike the entire trail again, but over time, the goal morphed into completing the trail as a series of section hikes. This was mainly because in 2023, I hiked nearly all of the Northern California section as a way of connecting the Oregon Coast and Bigfoot Trails to the Tahoe Rim Trail. After that stint, I couldn’t really see myself hiking NoCal a 3rd time (it’s my least favorite section), thus my focus shifted to just completing the remaining sections in the[…]

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