Chuckie V. again demonstrates why his Pacific Crest Trail journal is the most post-worthy of the bunch. Just a few days ago, I labored along Selden Pass’s lower slopes. A sort of no-man’s-land, this portion of the steep incline is…
Pacific Crest Trail
What it means to be Yogi
by tmangan • June 22, 2006 • 1 Comment
PCT thru-hiker Funnybone tells how it’s done. To “yogi” is to ask for something—in this case, a ride down to Independence—without actually asking. I define yogi-ing as such: implying you could use help without inquiring for help. It goes like…
‘Hiker Heaven’ on the PCT
by tmangan • June 5, 2006 • 0 Comments
From the LiveJournal blog of Redtail, at mile 454 on the Pacific Crest Trail: Hiker Heaven … is an experience unto itself. THGTTPCT tries to give some flavor of it in the page and a half it devotes to the…
A PCT dispatch
by tmangan • May 23, 2006 • 3 Comments
Jen and Juice, at mile 277 on the Pacific Crest Trail: What a night it was. I slept fairly soundly, Jenny on the other hand, was up most of the night conviced that the next huge gust was going to…
A good PCT read
by tmangan • April 21, 2006 • 0 Comments
Most trail journalers are far better hikers than writers, which means a fair amount of tedium trolling for bits of Trail Journal entries that seem postworthy. One correspondent whose prose stands out from the rest is Funnybone, who’s already been…
A thruhiker’s tale
by tmangan • January 14, 2006 • 4 Comments
I’ve been thinking about picking a hiker at random at TrailJournals and just following him/her along as the trip progresses, with posts here grabbing snippets of journal entries. This morning I found an intriguing prospect: A guy named Eric Yakel,…