1,000 miles in the Pacific Crest Trail

This morning I packed around the usual time, but I tried to shut up. Last night I joined the camp that had another four or five people. Once he was quite ready to go, those other hikers also began to move. Then I set out to start the day. The morning actually began with a little descent. But I knew shortly after I would be doing some escalation.

After falling to the bottom of that descent, I started my next climb. I knew I had some climbs and turned off during the next 10 miles. But I simply threw an audiobook and put myself in the area immediately. Honestly, I felt very good. Within the first hour or two I had the option to climb through an incomplete trunk or wet my feet. At this point, I would prefer to wet my feet. I hate decreasing speed to try to navigate carefully through an obstacle. When I could simply throw myself into the water and get out of the other side. In addition, it’s very hot here. I knew my feet would be dry in a short time.

Last night, at least I was considering making a crazy milage to reorganize my schedule. I am very happy not to have done that. I would simply have exerted so much pressure today. And while I felt great and still moved, today I didn’t fly. In the early hours, I had multiple long climbs to do. And I had a great time doing them. But I was not walking more than 3 miles per hour. I just walked through the fastest and most comfortable pace I could. However, I would prefer to take my time today and go to the city tomorrow morning. Instead of stressing all day today and running along the way.

Directing one of my first climbs of the day.

In the course of the morning, I found a lot of hikers. I went through most of them and some were still installed in the camp. A hiker I met was Mack. When I first saw her, she looked incredibly familiar. He took a couple of minutes to realize that I probably recognized her from social networks. Because we had never met before. But I suppose you have great monitoring on Instagram. It was nice to talk to her for a few minutes before continuing. Then, when I had approximately 12 miles of the day, I stopped briefly. From time to time I will sit for a few minutes to eat or do something. Most of the time like everything on the fly. But there are only some foods that are easier to eat when you don’t move.

The sun is reflected in a small lovely pond.

While I sat, they spent one or two hikers to which I had just passed. But I knew I would reach them a bit. I would definitely say that I am the fastest hiker here. The only thing I have for me is really the fact that basically I never stop going. Many people have happened to me in the course of this year. They are usually beating 4 mph. But eventually, they will stop and sit and take a break like everyone else. While it is possible that it has passed several times this year, there is not a single hiker that has happened to me this year that I finally did not advance again.

Today’s path was really variable and was quite exciting sometimes. A minute would be walking through an exuberant green pine forest. The next minute, I would go for an alpine lake. Or maybe walking through the rock slab. In general, he kept me quite entertaining and was really beautiful. Today was one of those days for the moment as if he simply escaped. It doesn’t always work that way. But when it does, it is the pure sky. Suddenly, I was watching my watch and it was about 20 miles for the day.

A really unique aspect section of the path. I really can’t think anywhere else where the land looks like this.

After climbing and overcoming the hills and short climbs during most of the day, things calm down a little. Then, later, I knew that the great climb of the day would begin. It was a gradual but very long climb by Dorothy Lake Pass. The views were beautiful in the section of the path, and most of the time you really couldn’t say that you were uphill.

Incredible views as far as he looks.

When I approached the top of the past, I went through a large camp configuration. I think that if I had lowered my head, I would have walked beyond it. It was a lot of paths of paths for a few days. They had a really large configuration and we are using some type of tube to pump in water from the lake. I briefly chatted with a boy who is standing near the path. He asked me when I started and was bewildered by my answer.

Returning to a more lush and green pine forest.

Today is really the 31st for me on the PCT. And I’m going to get to Kennedy Meadows North tomorrow. Which means that I have done around 900 miles in the last month. Obviously, due to turning between paths, things are not so clear. But I am only telling the time spent on the PCT and the miles that I have walked, then. The path of trails said he asked that question to many hikers. And that most hikers are about two months on their walk, but more. Which is completely reasonable and definitely standard. Honestly, I am a bit of the mind that I have reached so far on this path in such a short period of time.

Crossing the PCT score of a thousand miles.

After going through those guys, I had much more than reaching the top. And when he opened it and began to descend, I walked through another mile or so. Then he decided to take a last break before leaving at the camp at night. As someone who really does not break much, I have been enjoying this break towards the end of the day. I started a little habit in which I take a short break at the time I have 8-12 miles for the day. I think it is more mental than physical. It seems that it really helps and spends time quickly faster.

Between Dorothy Pass and my store site for the night, I went through the PCT thousand mile marker! I cannot believe that more than 1000 miles are on this path. It really feels as if it had happened in the blink of an eye. And I suppose that means that I have really spent more than 1000 miles in the last 31 days. I don’t know if that is the farthest I have been in a period of one month, but it is probably quite close.

A 1000 mile selfie.

It was really pleasant to end the day spending such an exciting milestone. From there, I continued for another hour or so. I wasn’t sure where I was going to camp at night. But lately the places just talk to me. I tried to establish a mileage goal for the day. And once that goal is, everything else is a fair game.

I started looking for tent sites and decided one that was right next to a river. There was a handful of time established between both sides of the river. I could find space, although it was not too close to everyone else. I feel bad appearing late and then keeping people awake.

After preparing my store, I drink water and did dinner. When I was in the gigantic lakes, I couldn’t get any normal dinner. The groceries had no Knorr’s garrison or anything like that. Instead, I obtained some super random dinners. And tonight I was going to try to rehydrate or RICE-A-RONI for the first time. And spoiler alert, you can’t rehydrate the rice-a-roni. Maybe if I had cooked it in my pot as long as it could have worked. But instead, I put it in a ziploc bag and added boiling water.

This was a good way to finish another great day.

After approximately half an hour, it was very clear that the food did not hydrate. I also knew I was going to have to take the food. Then, however, I turned on my camp stove and decided to try to cook it in my pot. However, even after cooking the first significant period of time, it was still crispy. I ate everything I could endure and then packed the rest with my garbage. That was a failure! Who knew you could not rehydrate the rice-a-roni. Maybe many people know it. But not me.

After dinner, I had to clean my pot. Then I returned and returned to my store to feel comfortable at night. I did my stretching and everything else. And although I didn’t do much work, I wrote some writing and video things before going to bed.

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