Ike and the Bat Cave Fresh into Hpa-An, one of the last stops on our Myanmar trip, we booked one of the famous excursions offered by our guest house, Soe …
Pacific Crest Tales: The Den of Legit Hikers
In northern Washington, the tiny town of Skykomish is the last outpost of human civilization for many thruhikers. We reached it in the early afternoon one day, almost entirely out of …
Waiting in Montana, Waiting on Montana
Hello from… St Mary, Montana. This is our fifth and hopefully final day in this tiny, tourist trap of a town. When we awoke this morning, at the ripe morning …
Pacific Crest Tales: Going Southbound
To go Southbound from Canada, we had to go a bit Northbound first. It is against United States law to enter the country from Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail, …
Pacific Crest Tales: Muir Trail Ranch Resupply
For over 200 miles in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the Pacific Crest Trail runs in unison with another scenic hiking trail: the John Muir Trail, or the JMT. 200+ …
Pacific Crest Tales: The Day We Almost Cheat
It was a day when I felt like I had hiked 10 miles, but I had only gone 5.5. We took an enormous break at 11 AM and continued the …
Pacific Crest Tales: Mile 100, or the Day Everyone Almost Quit
After our first zero day, spent in the small town of Julian, a large desert storm began to bear down on the trail. A thick, cold fog enveloped the town, …
Pacific Crest Tales: Higher Power Hitch
Early into our Pacific Crest Trail thru hike, just after mile 100 or so I started to notice an uncomfortable rubbing of the frame of my pack against my lower …
Pacific Crest Tales: Hikertown
Tehachapi. “Teha-choppy?” “Techachapi?” “Tehapachi.” “I’m just going to call it Te-pap-smear-chapi.” A little town with a name that we all struggled with, Tehachapi was the last town right off the …
Pacific Crest Tales: Night Hiking
Part of a series of stories from hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. Night Hiking The climb down from the peak of San Jacinto is a 20 mile network of descending …
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