“Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures”. – Lovelle Drachman After 55 days, reaching the Cap de Creus peninsula and making our way to the end point of the trail. Entering our…
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“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature”. Claude Monet Wanting time to stand still as we savoured our last moments in the high mountains before descending…
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“Live your life by a compass, not a clock”. – Stephen Covey Week 6 started well with the early evening sun bathing the tent as we set up for a night of wild camping…
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“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul”. – Jamie Lyn Beatty Watching the sun rise from our wild camp spot at Lacs de Barroude made for a superb start to Week 4.…
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“After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value”. – G.M. Trevelyan One of the highlights of ‘Week 3’ was looking onto the magnificent north face of the Vignemale massif. In just two…
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“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean”. – John Muir Thoroughly excited at…
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“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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“Above all do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts and…
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“If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together”. – African Proverb The Sixteenth Week – Closing The Gap! President Teddy Roosevelt dubbed Burney Falls as…
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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…