Sarah at Freezerbag Cooking offers another of her excellent not-about-cooking posts, this one on the siren song of the Pacific Crest Trail, of which she’s hiked a few sections:

Over the past years I started piecing trips out when I could, getting a few miles in here and there on the PCT. But finally last summer I had my chance to do a real section on it. I had wanted to hike from Stevens Pass (Hwy 2) to Snoqualmie Pass (I-90) with friends for a long time, but it wasn’t easy to get vacation time together. And other trips interrupted us over the years. One year it was The Wonderland Trail, another year found me in the midst of buying a house and losing a lot of time for hiking. Life has that way of interrupting plans and changing your life’s course. But finally we’d gotten all laid out, and it happened. And it totally changed my view on life, yet again. It wasn’t even a long section, just under 80 miles, but it wowed me. We spent those days exploring and slogging, my heart singing whenever we crested a ridge and got views.

Speaking of cooking, Russ at Trailcraft profiles an interesting camping cookbook.