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PCT Day 20 – Salvation Spring
August 12 Miles hiked: 21.7 Total trip mileage: 382.4 We wake up, pack our stuff and head down to the main lobby, where we’re greeted by several familiar faces. Bankshot, who we first saw at Shelter...
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PCT day 21 – Cascade Locks
August 13 Miles hiked: 24.5 Total trip mileage: 406.9 In the wee hours of the morning, I peek out of our tiny tent window and see the departing backs of Monique, Bert and Todd. How do they manage to...
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PCT Days 14 & 15 – Double zero in Sisters
August 6 & 7 Miles hiked: 0 Total Trip Miles: 263.9 Sleeping in a bed, my head on a pillow. A shower in the morning. A cup of coffee (or two!) with milk in it. Long chats in the garden, with...
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PCT Day 16 – the sky is falling
August 8 Miles hiked: 22.5 Total trip miles: 286.4 While we’re drinking coffee this morning, I watch the weather forecast on TV. The heat will be returning later in the week, but for today, there is a...
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PCT Day 17 – Our heads in the clouds
August 9 Miles hiked: 22.0 Total trip miles: 308.4 Dawn comes and the fog is swirling around our tent. Miniature raindrops — morsels of the mist— still patter intermittently on our tent. We want to...
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PCT Day 18 – The Green Tunnel
August 10 Miles hiked: 27.5 Total Trip Mileage: 335.9 Somewhere in the pre-dawn darkness, the woman from New Zealand, the guy from Belgium and their US companion vanish into the mist. We never heard a...
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PCT Day 19 – Mount Hood
August 11 Miles hiked: 24.8 Total Trip Mileage: 360.7 We wake up early today, eager to get on the trail and get to Timberline Lodge. A bed tonight! Dinner in a restaurant! The green tunnel continues as...
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Today an interesting thing came up in my Facebook feed: it’s the International Day of Forests. No kidding. What a coincidence, I think to myself. Here I am, mulling over the idea of writing a blog post...
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PCT Day 12 – black glass and a blue lake
August 4 Miles hiked: 17.3 Total trip miles: 243.4 Today is going to be an easy day! It’s less than 40 miles to Santiam Pass, and only about 20 to the Lava Camp campground at MacKenzie Pass, where I...
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PCT Day 13 – From one pass to another
August 5 Miles hiked: 20.5 Total trip miles: 263.9 We wake up bright and early and head back over to the PCT from our awesome campsite at North Matthieu Lake. Soon we’re walking on lava, winding in and...
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