Category: Camping
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Day 1 @ Olympic National Park
Olympic National Park isn’t the only beauty around. We boondocked our first night just outside the boundary!
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Day 60 | Mile 791.2 – 805.3
I awoke at 4 AM, and steeled myself for the tackling of the technical Glen Pass. We’d been able to camp 1.1 miles below the pass itself, so it wasn’t far to go. There were many, many other hikers camped as close to the pass as possible, but we were among some of the first…
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Day 59 | Mile 789-791.2
(+7.5 miles up and over Kearsarge Pass) We camped in the valley below Kearsarge Pass, where we added Lou to our tramily! Lou hiked with Ollie & Bianca earlier this year, and was returning from an achilles injury. Our jaunt up north to allow the snow to melt was successful – there was so much…
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Day 18 | Mile 235.5 – 250
(via the Ridgewalk Bypass) Shortly after my campsite, the trail returns to the Mission Creek drainage, and is blocked by 25’+ rocky waterfalls. The PCTA is encouraging hikers to skip this entire section (from miles 209.5-250), but a few hikers are choosing to scale these waterfalls. Hikers coming from the north last year discovered they…
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My First Backpacking Date
Aside from backpackers I’ve met while on a trail, I’ve always backpacked alone. It’s been a hard sell for my non-backpacking friends to want to purchase, and then carry, a lot of gear just to go somewhere to sleep on the hard ground. And then along comes Tom! Tom and I finally found one night…
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Planning a Primitive Camping Date
Have you ever felt inclined to work up a good sweat with a great hike, then not change your clothes or bathe, and crawl into a tiny space with your beloved (who is in a similarly rank state) and stay there for about nine hours? No? Ah, well, I can’t say I blame you, but…
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Day 3 | PCT 2021
Mile 15 – 22.3 Talking with a few other hikers who had been camped in the same area as me last night, they confirmed that they also heard the mountain lion and its heavy breathing. But none of us became midnight snacks! I had a steep climb first thing in the morning out of Hauser…