“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will”. – Mahatma Gandhi The Twenty-Fourth Week – The Final Countdown! Making it to the Canadian border at last! Day 161 –…
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“Never forget how far you’ve come. Everything you have gotten through. All the times you have pushed on even when you felt you couldn’t. All the mornings you got out of bed no matter…
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“I never get afraid of things; I only get excited”. – Tom Hiddleston The Twenty-Second Week – Back To The Big Stuff! Preparing to cross the Knife’s Edge in the Goat Rocks Wilderness –…
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“Deep down, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical”. – Carl Sagan The Twenty-First Week – Two States Down. One To Go! For once we had a border…
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“I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was…
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“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere”. – Frank A. Clark The Nineteenth Week – Staying Strong And Motoring On… Continuing north on the PCT enjoying a…
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“Hiking is a bit like life: The journey only requires you to put one foot in front of the other …again and again and again. And if you allow yourself opportunity to be present…
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“You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and…
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“When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top”. – Anonymous The Fourteenth Week – Stepping Into Summer! Showcasing the green and grand forested hills of Northern California!…
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“Now I see the secret of making the best person. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth”. – Walt Whitman The Thirteenth Week – The…
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“If you start, don’t give up, or you will be giving up at difficulties all your life”. – Alfred Wainwright The Tenth Week – A Pass Per Day Stood in the entrance to the…
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“It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era, or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with…
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“The mountains are calling… And I must go”. – John Muir The Eighth Week – Entering The Wonderland Reaching a significant milestone on the PCT… 700 miles done and we can finally wave farewell…
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“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills The Seventh Week – Staying Strong And Making Strides To Reach The Sierra Making it to Mile 550… Because every step counts!…
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“Walking is man’s best medicine”. – Hippocrates The Sixth Week – Perseverance Will Prevail Into the desert proper… Taking respite from the sun under a cactus palm as we cross the western arm of…
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“Potest quia posse videntur – He can because he thinks he can”. – From ‘The Pacific Crest Trail’, Cicerone, by Brian Johnson Muir The Fifth Week – Turning Into Walking Machines… Celebrating being a…