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Mileage: 0
As much as I love sleep, I’m so used to walking up early on trail that I woke up at 6AM and had to wait an hour for breakfast. Apparently, I slept through an obnoxious guitar/screaming duet at midnight last night, which woke up just about everybody. Aft...
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Mileage: 16 to VVR!
Last night, we camped at an abnormally warm lake at above 10,000 feet, so we only had 700 feet of elevation gain to go to get to the top of Selden Pass. We got an early start so that we could get to the pass and Bear Creek early, which also meant that I...
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Mileage: 16
We camped right next to Evolution Creek last night, but we were still a few miles away from the official crossing. Evolution Creek, a horribly named behemoth of a river, is one of the more difficult river crossings on the PCT due to how wide, fast, and ...
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Mileage: 16
We’ve been pretty consistently high lately. Every day holds a new snow-covered mountain pass that brings us up and up before forcing us back down to the lowlands. Today was no different, with Muir Pass in our sights and miles and miles of snow to slog t...
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Mileage: 17
We had another bet last night that said whoever was the latest to being ready to hike beyond 5:30AM would have to buy a milkshake for the rest of the group. I had slept until 5:10 but I really didn’t want to lose, so I ran around and threw everything in...
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Mileage: 12 + 3 to look for the ice axe + 1 to go back to talk to Marla + ? for snowy pathfinding
Extra miles climbing down and then back up… Twice. I got an early start this morning. Since I felt partially responsible for Marla’s ice axe situation, I figured that the least I could do was go back down to the river to see if I could find it in the lo...
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Mileage: 13. We’re at mile 802.
Today we finally got back on trail. And it’s the Fourth of July! Hooray! 🎉 🇺🇸🎇 I woke up covered in a layer of morning dew, which is a really terrible way to wake up at 5AM at 10,000 feet. Brrrrrr. I didn’t want to get up and deal with the ridiculou...
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Mileage: 0 (7 non-trail miles). We are camped at mile 789.
Since we took an accidental zero yesterday, we needed to get back to the trail today. That meant hitching out of Independence and hiking Kearsarge again. Yay for uphills! 🎉 It’s Fourth of July weekend, so we figured a hitch wouldn’t be too hard, but it...
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Mileage: 0.0
Oops. We didn’t plan to zero in Bishop, but due to how much we needed to do and how late we got to town yesterday, we took it easy and hiked zero miles today. I was a sleepy boy this morning, so I woke up to give Savage my laundry and then slept in unti...
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Mileage: 5 PCT + 7 up and down Kearsarge
We camped at a tough creek crossing last night so we could cross it in the morning, so I woke up a bit early and scouted out our possible options. The creek was fast and heavy and the weren’t many great options, so the primary option was a log above a p...
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