“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…
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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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Walking 2,659 Miles In The Wilderness… Hiking this distance, whilst being completely self-sufficient takes a lot of preparation. So where to begin? Planning for a hike of such magnitude can seem more than a…