“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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“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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“Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken”. – Frank Herbert The Twelfth Week – Into The Unknown After such spectacular scenery in the High sierra, we weren’t sure what…
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“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far”. – Thomas Jefferson The Eleventh Week – Mission: Mosquito Avoidance Reflections of the Milky Way captured from Marie Lake at Mile 866.…
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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…