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PCT Day 73, Mules Ear Creek to Highway 40 (Truckee) 26 miles

Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward. – Hillary Clinton It’s cold now. I sleep in all my clothes and wrap my raincoat over my legs and do just fine. Richard has sent a liner and merino and I hope it’s enough for the high altitude I’ll walk. An animal came close […]

PCT Day 72, Highway 49 to Mules Ear Creek, 16 miles

These things are ours, for God creates within our soul a mystic sense of wonder that we may hear allegro tunes among tall swaying cattails. —Gwen Frostic Indeed, sleeping in a bed is absolutely wonderful. My legs splay akimbo, the covers are warm, swaddling my body, the mattress gives my muscles, joints and bones just […]

PCT Day 71, A-Tree Spring to Highway 49 (Sierra City) 24 miles

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. – J.K. Rowling I wake to a purply-orange glow on the horizon and my owl’s “Hoohoo-hoo-hoo!” It’s cold and I wonder if I’ll be warm enough in the Sierra […]

PCT Day 70, Middle Fork Feather River to A-tree spring, 30 miles

Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. – Anne Lamott I feel much better this morning and come to this conclusion – sleep matters. Still a blareathon light, but those hikers are far across this sandy, rocky, brush-strewn dry riverbed. I don’t understand the thinking, but glad […]

PCT Day 69, ridge above Belden to Middle Fork Feather River, 25 miles

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute. – Tina Fey I can’t sleep. The view from my tent is to smoke glowing hot pink above the mountains, the sky a deep velvety blueblack. Klaus mentions it might get cold before falling […]

PCT Day 68, Chips Creek to ridge above Belden, 21 miles

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is. – Angelina Jolie I wake to a light in my eyes. The hikers who joined us last night are filtering water with headlamps faced at my tent. Do people have so little awareness they […]

PCT Day 67, Lassen view to private waterfall on Chips Creek, 25 miles

If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner. – Cher Lightning streaks the sky, but there’s no boom. Maybe we got a few drops but my tent is dry by morning. Also no visitors, neither man nor beast. Klaus uses an alarm – ugh – but I decide to let it slide. […]