It is hard to believe that it is already time to start thinking about trail work for this season. It seems like only yesterday that I was out on the Pacific Crest Trail learning how to crosscut saw and construct a water drain. We barely finished our last project adding a connector trail to the…
I meant to get this posted the week after I talked about last year’s weekend backpacking trip on the Pacific Crest Trail in Out With The Girls. But other things kept popping up and here it is already 2017! Since I have started backpacking, almost all my trips have been with other women. And solo. If you…
One of my favorite memories from our work party to Hart’s Pass in September will have to be meeting the first woman to hike the Pacific Crest Trail solo. Her trail name is Ravensong and she hiked the PCT in 1976. In fact, she finished exactly on my 6th birthday! She was one of 12…
I just realized I never really did a blog post on my section hike of the Oregon PCT this summer. I did write up my trip report over on Trail Journals but I thought I would put a little synopsis down here, along with some videos I took. I can sum up this trip in…
I have just returned from yet another work party on the PCT, this one up at Hart’s Pass in the North Cascades. This is really beginning to be a thing! It is no exaggeration when I say this area is my favorite place on the whole PCT. I have now been up here 4 times now;…
As I figured it would be, posting here on the blog will be spotty as I continue with my summer filled with hiking, family camping and other assorted outdoor activities. You can find more details about my latest 5 day PCT hike on my post, And That’s A Wrap-Oregon PCT. This is a story that…