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Thursday, 19 July 2012

PCT In Photos: Week 1

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I’ve whittled the 1000 photos down to 72, so it’s time to start sharing them. Week 1 seems like a good place to start. It’s a poor excuse ...
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PCT: The Size of the ‘Herd’

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Conrad is doing a good job of giving me subjects to write about! In his last comment he asked “about frequency of meeting others, and wheth...
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Monday, 16 July 2012

How Hard?

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In a comment on the previous post, Conrad said: “I am sure you were aware of the strenuous nature of this walk, but was it harder than you ...
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Day 16 - Random Thoughts

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A bit of a delayed post here! I wrote this one on 16 June (when we were in the prolonged period without a phone signal) and only just realis...
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Sunday, 15 July 2012

A Video Snippet

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I took quite a few video snippets whilst we were on the PCT (twenty, actually, although 2 were accidental!). They’re all of exceptionally po...
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Thursday, 12 July 2012

Sorting Through The Photos

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I’m sorting through the PCT photos and will post some soon (I need to be more ruthless with the sorting first; I fear that I could become a ...
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Saturday, 7 July 2012

Home time

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The time has come to say farewell to the States and journey home. It's four days since we finished the walk and food has been a major...
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Thursday, 5 July 2012

Ooops!

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I managed to walk 500 miles through desert and mountains, often over uneven terrain, without falling over once. Within five minutes of g...
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Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Day 33 - Mission Accomplished!

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Day 33 - Mile 926 to Mile 941 Tuesday 3 July (0600-1310) Distance: PCT 15 miles; non-PCT: 1 mile Weather: hot in the Lyell Canyon, even h...
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days 30 and 31

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I'm a bit out of order heere! Day 30 can be found between days 1c and 20. There was no post onm Day 31 because we didn't do anythin...

Day 32

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the Devil's Postpile and Mile 909 to Mile 926 Monday 2 July (0850-1800) Distance: PCT: 17 miles; non-PCT: 1 mile Weather: some cloud....

Day 29

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Mile 878.8 to Mile 893.5 Friday 29 June (0930-1800) Distance: PCT: 14.7; non-PCT: 1.5 Number of blow-down obstacles requiring clambering,...

Day 28

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Day 28 - mile 873.5 to mile 878.8 Thursday 28 June (0500-0740) Distance: PCT miles: 5.3; non-PCT miles: 1.5 Number of fun ferry rides enj...

day 27

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Mile 856 to Mile 873.5 Wednesday 27 June (0715-1400; 1530-1715) Distance: 17.5 miles Number of food fantasy incidents: 9 Within yards ...
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Day 26

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Day 26 - mile 833.5 to mile 856 Distance: 22.5 miles Number of jammed hipbelt incidents: 1 Number of times the trail was temporarily misp...
Sunday, 1 July 2012

Day 25

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Mile 814 to Mile 833.5 Monday 25 June (0640-1700) Distance: 19.5 miles Weather: a fluffy white cloud was sighted, but it was a long way t...
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Day 24

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Mile 800 to mile 814 Sunday 24 June (0645-1555) Distance: 14 miles Ascent: 5500' Weather: still windy in places, but hot (except for...

Day 23

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Mile 789 to mile 800 (plus the Kearsarge Trail) Saturday 23 June (0630-1630) Distance: PCT: 11 miles; non-PCT: 4.75 miles Weather: still ...

day 22 - Another Nero

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Friday 22 June (1715-1830ish) Distance: 2.75 miles (non-PCT miles) On Wednesday evening Mick's vote was for a Zero today, whereas my...

Day 21 - Resupply Day

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Thursday 21 June (0715-1000) Distance: PCT miles: 0; non-PCT miles: 5 There was a little nervousness as we pitched the tent last night. ...