The southern terminus with my parents on May 9th
Breakfast with Shari in Mt. Laguna
First trail magic! A chocolate bar
Pizza with Grace in Julian
Free pie in Julian
Eagle Rock
Walrus at Mike’s Place
Breakfast at Little Bear Hostel
Trail Magic under Interstate 10
Cajón Pass McDonald’s
Bringing the good weather in Wrightwood
Mt. Baden Powell
Trail Magic and visit from Phiwat in Acton Camp
Vasquez Rocks
Hikertown limo ride
Walking the Aqueduct
Tehachapi care package from MN friends
Old Yeller trail magic
Sharing a salad in Tehachapi
Kennedy Meadows South breakfast
Mt. Whitney
Forrester Pass, the highest point on the PCT
Ice cream in Bishop
Muir Pass
Legend trail magic
Cloudsrest with Half Dome in the background
Climbing Half Dome
Benson Lake, the “Riviera of the Sierra”
All you can eat sushi in South Lake Tahoe
Aqua blazing Echo Lake
Benson Hut
Sierra City care package from MN friends
Sierra Buttes fire tower
Trail Magic from Cosmic Pickles aka Zach
Hiking with Peter and James
Mill where I slept in Belden
White thorn, the bane of my leg flesh
Halfway!
Lassen Volcano National Park
Sculpture garden outside Burney
Trail Magic with Mark between Burney and Mt. Shasta
Grizzly Gramps and puppy Nevada
Trail Magic with Sea Gypsy
Breakfast with my Uncle Tom in Mt. Shasta, CA
Breakfast in Etna with Cascade, Extra, and Geisha
Watching Chost Wizard and Chicken Joe down half gallons of ice cream in Seiad Valley
Jackalope in the Seiad Valley store
Sunrise climb from Seiad Valley
Ashland Commons Hostel french toast
Cascade and me with our Ashland trail angel Servpreet
Crater Lake trolley with Geisha and Mayor
Crater Lake
Wine and cheese night with Mayor and Tanner (Spoons)
Wildlife about to dig into his ice cream tub at Shelter Cove
Bear sighting!
River otter
Lava fields
Deschutes River float trip in Bend
Trail Days
Hotrod with his Hotrod
Trail Days full family reunion with the Lake Tahoe crew
Llamas Bruce and Jack
Goats
Three Fingered Jack
Mt. Hood
Smoky day
Re-enacting the Shining at Timberline Lodge
Ramona Falls
Birthday party 🎉
Splitting Split Rock
Surprise encounter with my friend Kris from MN
Tunnel Falls
Visit from Matt and Tom
First steps into Washington!
Views of the Colombia River Gorge from Table Mountain
Superfeet with a sausage
First Washington trail magic
Pickup truck shuttle to Trout Lake
Trout Lake potluck
Portrait with his homemade tent
Powering through a rainy day with my trail visitor Phiwat
Sunrise with Mt. Adams
Atop Snowy Mountain
Knife’s Edge
Packwood flea market
Dodger finishing some leftovers
A makeshift rain skirt
Saying goodbye to Dodger before his bike blaze
A Saturday night in Darrington, WA
Porcupine!
Cutthroat Pass at sunset
Found this man in the bushes 3 miles from the terminus
The Northern Terminus on September 18th!
Happy to finish with Spoons, Raccoon,