The hikers reveal their worst mistakes!

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Hello guys, it’s Jess, also known as Sassafras, and this weekend I am here on PCT Trail Days with the walk, going out with hikers, Rafling a little loot and, in general, encouraging all types of pranks as a roast chicken dining contest and an egg dresser.

This weekend I also had the opportunity to sit with three bloggers/PCT to hikers to roast them about their favorite pieces, the lessons they have learned and the mistakes they have made, so that future hikers can avoid the same difficulties.

Now we are going to get into that.

Meet hikers

Kat, also known as Pretzel:
«I’m Pretzel, Hi!»

Emilio, also known as Nitwit:
«Hey, my name is Emilio, my path of path is Nitwit.»

Anna, also known as magic:
«Hello everyone, my name is magical, and I am currently doing the PCT this year.»

Favorite Team pieces

Question: What is your favorite backpacker team of your trip?

Simpleton:
«Let’s see, um, I think that the one who comes to mind is my quilt. It is a 22 -degree katabatic flex quilt.

Salada cookie:
«My favorite team piece, I’m going to choose two, but they are the same theme, it’s like my solar umbrella and my wind pants. I am like a temperature princess, and I don’t like being too hot or too cold, so the wind pants I feel is surprisingly isolating how light Me, I love my umbrella. ”

Magic:
«I walk with a Lucy light, and my husband and I have a small clothesline that has hung in our store, and I use my Lucy Light at night and in the morning to lighten my path, so I don’t have to use my lighthouse batteries. So that has been a bit pleasant, and also has a disc mode.

Advice for the future through hikers

Question: Do you have any advice for the future through hikers?

Salada cookie:
«Very well, tips for the future through hikers. First: through the head. That is the best advice. But if you are going to do it, I think the most important thing is to listen to what really makes you happy, instead of what other people think it is the right way to walk.

I am like more than 4,000 miles to walk along several paths, and I think that the most important thing I have learned is that there is no correct way to do so. I feel that while you are doing this, and you are having fun, and you are spending that time outside, and pushing yourself and finding your limits and surpassing them, that is the whole point. «

Simpleton:
«Salt and do it. Investigate a little. Discover your team, but the absolute number one you can do is get on the way. It will change you.»

Magic:
«The advice I would give to the future through hikers is just listen to your body. You don’t have to walk to try to keep up with other people. It is a cliché, although your own walk, but it is really true, especially if you want to reach the northern terminal. You have to do your best for you.»

The biggest errors and lessons learned along the way

Question: What is the biggest mistake you have made this year? Or, what are the largest lessons you have learned in the course of your walk?

Magic:
«I think you have to do whatever it takes to make this path fun.

Salada cookie:
«I feel that, with the kind of returning to my greatest error and lesson, as I think that my greatest complaint was the culture of purism of the community through that it is much more unbridled in the AT than on the PCT, where things like forest fires have to omit the sections. But the idea that if you do not walk every step of the route that you are not through the breaches is totally absurd.» «.» «.» «

Simpleton:
«I probably answered this question in two ways. The number one was not discovering my shoes, my shoes, as much as I could have done before path, specifically my feet. I know that my feet were a bit weird. It was, I will be honest, something like waiting for it to be fine. It ended up being more a problem than I expected.

And I would say that my second half of that was that I would like to have received professional attention on my feet a little earlier, as closest to when I really injured myself, because unfortunately I am coming out of my way at this time, just at the northern end of California. I make injuries. That has been too long. «

Secondary missions

Question: What is your favorite PCT Side search that you would recommend to future PCT through excursions?

Simpleton:
«I would say that the main piece, Sesquest, if it were Mount Whitney, I recommend that you do it if it is a reasonable snow year. It is beautiful. It is incredibly challenging, but it is also possible and is surprising.»

Magic:
«I did the Eagle Creek alternative a few days ago to reach the Cascade locks for the days of paths, and it was beautiful. It is home to the iconic tunnel falls, and I think it is definitely worth alternating from the red line. For all purists, you have to make tunnels in Eagle Creek.»

Sierras experience

Question: How was your experience walking through the notorious mountains?

Simpleton:
«Sierra was incredible. Sierra was fantastic. I love that tranco of path. I can’t believe that I had never been in the high mountains before, despite growing in California.

It was an average snow year, but snow was melting quite fast. I think I entered on May 29, so you feel like the right time. It was snowy: the passes were definitely snowy. I was walking on them. I’m glad I had my ax and ice spikes, but it was very accessible, and it was very fun.

I was still doing the Get-Up-At-4 am, walking, walking, walking, sleeping from noon to two or three, and then walking a little more in the afternoon. But it was a lot of fun. It’s so beautiful. I swam in Lagos. I love that place. «

Thank you very much to Pretzel, Magic and Nitwit for participating in this video.

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