Category: twitters

• Huckleberrys! :). #
• Sleeping on the trail tonight. #
• Becase It'sthe only flat spot and my feet want to stop hiking. #
• I have a great view and a sunset. #

• Huckleberrys! :). #
• Sleeping on the trail tonight. #
• Becase It'sthe only flat spot and my feet want to stop hiking. #
• I have a great view and a sunset. #

• I still have yet to see another hiker. #
• Perfect timing. #
• Sitting in the woods on a sunny morning. I’m really lucky. #

• On trail!! 🙂 #
• Going to sleep on the PCT. So happy to be back home. #
• Slowly waking up. I can lay here for as long as I want. #
• This is a just for fun hike. #
• I haven't seen another hiker since I hit the trail. #

• On the bus to Ashland. #
• Thinking I should head even further south. #
• I have no maps or data for south of Ashland. #
• So maybe I should stick with my oringinal plan. #
• Go to Ashland and start hiking north. #
• I’m hoping the snow is gone. #
• I can’t stop smiling. #
• Soon I will be back on the trail. #

• Freeing myself from the chains of domesticity. #
• Admiring my new pack–an Osprey Atmos 35. #
• I have a new pack, new shoes, the PCT data book, and a bus ticket to Ashland…. #
• My new pack is gold. The tag says it weighs 2lbs 9oz. #
• The tag also says that it only holds 2100 ci of stuff. #
• Yet all my stuff and 5 days worth of food fits in it easily….odd. #
• My new pack is a panel loader and it has lots of pockets. #
• It is also white inside so you can see your stuff. #

• I’m about 75 miles from Stehekin. Soon I’ll probably lose service for good. #
• Will be in Manning Park on Sept.6 #
• After that I could go back and try to pick up the miles I missed or I might just go home. #
• I meet my son in Stehkin on Saturday. Then we hike together– 15 mile days for a week. #

• In Skykomish–mile 2476. #
• My feet hurt and I’m tired and slow. #
• It’s supposed to start raining again. #

• It’s 43 degrees with pouring rain. #
• Thinking I don’t want to go outside because it’s cold and wet out there. #
• But I’m getting ready anyway. #
• Hiking on. #

• Laying in a big bed watching TV. It’s still raining outside. Today it’s supposed to snow up high. #
• The Summit Inn is filling up with hikers who don’t want to hike in the rain. #
• Some of them are discovering that their light weight tents don’t keep out rain. #

I’m at Snoqualmie Pass–mile 2400.  Been here for three days now because I don’t want to go out in the rain.

I have been slow and tired lately so the rest might do me some good.

Very few huckleberries have been ripe, and that has been a great disappointment.

Lots of hikers here.   Many talking of failures from their light weight tents.   I remember last year it raining really hard and me and my gear getting really wet too.   That’s the thing about single wall sil-nylon tents– they are great until it rains really hard and then you realize how crappy they truly are.

It is going to be a mass exodus once the weather breaks.

• Three days ago, I dropped my phone in a lake. I took out the battery and let things dry out. Now it works! #
• I’m camped about one mile from Snoquamie Pass. Soon I will be eating pancakes. I’m really hungry. #

• Back on the trail. #
• Sitting on the crest eating lunch. It feels like it might rain. #
• listening to the radio–I’ve been getting good NPR reception all morning. #
• My feet hurt. I have only hiked 9 miles all day. #
• Ate my first huckleberry of the year today. #
• Waking up from a short power nap. Maybe I need another one. #
• Taking a day off let my feet remember what its like to not hurt and now they are whining. #
• Someone keeps shooting a gun over an over near by. Hunters and hikers don’t mix. . #
• I just figured out that I only need to average 18 miles a day to get to Stehekin by August 29th. #
• Then my son joins me and we are going to do 15 mile days. Easy living on the PCT from now on. #

• Should be back on the trail this evening. #