Scubaman is just outside of Warner Springs on the Pacific Crest Trail: My latest start yet. I was not under way until after 9 AM. It was cold outside and my clothes still damp. The sleeping bag felt so toasty…
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Groomsman in the Yakima Herald
by tmangan • April 20, 2007 • 0 Comments
Tyler Gence hiked the Pacific Crest Trail last year; he’s giving a presentation on his experience next Wednesday in Yakima. From the story in the local paper: So Gence decided to do take some time last year to do a…
Recent Trail Journals highlights
by tmangan • March 6, 2007 • 1 Comment
Sharon Allen, beside herself with anticipation, points to bearcan’t.org, perhaps the most elaborate Pacific Crest Trail journal ever created. 30-30, a 2004 AT veteran, starts his 2007 PCT journal as such: Hi, my name is Scott & I am a…
Why he’s hiking the PCT
by tmangan • February 23, 2007 • 0 Comments
Paul Caccamo, from a Trail Journals prep entry: For quite some time I’ve been feeling the desire to check out of our mechanized and digitalized existence. I’ve become extremely sensetive to machine sounds over the past few years. If I’m…
Hooked on the PCT
by tmangan • February 9, 2007 • 0 Comments
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…
On top of ol’ Whitney
by tmangan • December 15, 2006 • 2 Comments
Rick of Best Hikes has posted a page telling all the nasty details about getting to the top of Mount Whitney. Why Rick likes the Whitney hike: no climbing gear needed surprisingly easy if you get good weather it’s a…
Funnybone’s advice for PCT wannabes
by tmangan • November 14, 2006 • 1 Comment
His Pacific Crest Trail adventure complete, Chuckie V. dispenses bits of wisdom. Hike your own hike. Basic advice here. Anybody who tells you this more than once really means “Hike your own hike MY WAY.” Ignore them; they’re imbeciles. Gear…
Chuckie V reaches Canada
by tmangan • November 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
Chuckie, trail name Funnybone, on reaching the final milepost on the Pacific Crest Trial: I wound my way down the last set of switchbacks when I came to a clearing. There it stood, Monument 78, a miniature Washington Monument looking…
One for the Trail Journals greatest hits file
by tmangan • November 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
From Funnybone’s PCT journal: It was an hideous day, the kind that reminds you that you’d rather be indoors reading or sitting in front of the telly or perhaps even doing the dishes or standing in line at the Department…