Category: PCT
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Day 89 to 93 – A change of scenery
Friday 26 July 2019 Day: 89 Location: Mile 1,034.2 Distance travelled: 17.3 miles / 28 km In typical fashion for us, we hit up the restaurant at Kennedy Meadows North for breakfast. The servings were actually pretty decent in size, but that certainly didn’t stop us going back to the general store about an hour…
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Day 87 & 88 – The Sierra’s, a final hurrah
Wednesday 24 July 2019 Day: 87 Location: Mile 1004.4 Distance travelled: 21.3 miles / 34 km We hit the 1,000 mile mark today! It feels like a huge achievement walking 1,600km. It’s a long way. When I think back to when I first started on the PCT I have learnt a lot in these 1,000…
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Day 85 & 86 – Goodbye snow, hello wildflowers
Monday 22 July 2019 Day: 85 Location: Mile 965.3 Distance travelled: 19 miles / 31 km We enjoyed a spectacular morning following the river down to Tuolomne Falls. The forest was pretty and the falls were spectacular. Thanks to all of the snow melt the falls were gushing with water. The trail climbed throughout the…
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Day 83 & 84 – El Cap, free soloing the nose
Saturday 20 July 2019 Day: 83 Location: Yosemite Rather than hike straight down into the valley we decided to take a scenic route via Glacier Point. We didn’t have proper topo maps but expected the trail to traverse around the outside of the valley to Cascade Point where we would have views of Half Dome,…
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Day 81 & 82 -Yosemite, a side adventure
Thursday 18 July 2019 Day: 81 Location: Yosemite Our alarms sounded at 6.30, we packed up quickly, headed up to the Wilderness Centre and position ourselves in line for a Yosemite Wilderness Permit. While the PCT skirts around the outside of Yosemite it doesn’t go into the valley. Adam and I have heard so much…
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Day 79 & 80 – Bagels, a bear then back into the mountains
Tuesday 16 July 2019 Day: 79 Location: Mile 924.4 Distance travelled: 17.8 miles / 29 km First day back on trail after a couple of days off in Mammoth Lakes and it was a damn good day back. Having missed the last trolley and consequently the last shuttle back up to the trail head yesterday…
Adam, Leigh and the Trees 
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