Day 99 It was an unusually cold morning today, not really that cold compared to the desert or the Sierras, but compared to the preceding weeks it was. I got going a bit before sunrise still wearing my down jacket and warm tights. That got me wondering if it just was going to get colder and colder the further north I got. Some miles into today’s hiking I got to a minor creek, which was…
Day 98 Just before I was about to fall asleep yesterday I heard a woman screaming and immediately thought about bears. But my ears had betrayed me. It wasn’t a woman, it was a bear box squeaking as it was being opened, which I realized as it was being closed again. There was actually also quite a bit of noise from a few hikers who didn’t care about hiker midnight, so my Sleep could’ve been…
Day 97 It has gotten late, but Today made quite an impression on me, so I want to pen it down while it is completely fresh in my memory. Let’s get to it. Failing to get early to bed yesterday I didn’t want to be sleepwalking like the previous morning so I let myself sleep in just a bit. I still got up before the sun and had breakfast a bit into hiking. I was…
Day 96 Woke up a couple of times during the night and finally decided to get up around four am. Like yesterday I packed up my stuff and had breakfast a bit later to not disturb the others. Unfortunately, I had gotten too early again and was too sleepy to walk. Tried a power nap which worked well despite the fact that I didn’t sleep that much. When the sun rose it revealed today to…
Day 95 This was the first full day on the Oregon section of the PCT. I was walking by dawn and had my breakfast a bit later as I had tried to be as quiet as possible when packing down camp to not disturb my fellow camper. It was for the first time in a long long while an overcast day. Or so I thought. When the sun rose further you could see how distant…
Day 94 For some reason I like idioms, proverbs, and how they differ between Danish and English. In the IS you’re pretty cool if you are as “cool as a cucumber”. In Danish, however, one has lost his mind if he has “gone cucumber”. In Danish we have a “bear favor” (despite the fact that we don’t have bears), which traditionally means a favor that ends up doing more harm than good. Anyways, let’s get…
Day 93 First and foremost, I‘ll here apologize for not experiencing anything of particular interest today that you could’ve vicariously experienced through me. It was mostly chores and microwave dinners. On the positive side, though, I did get my resupply strategy down for the rest of the whole trip. As for the aforementioned microwave dinners, I discovered a brand called “Devour”, and bought a couple of them. The “funny” thing here being that me and…
Day 92 A bit after three am I was awoken by a dog barking again, this time from some distance. I don’t hope it was the same dog and hiker as a couple of days ago, because then the hiker is rather inconsiderate of the other hikers if he night hikes and has his dogs barking at every tent they pass. The first time it was kind of my own fault for camping close to…
Day 91 Last night I slept very close to a spring. Around dusk I had visits from two deer or the same deer twice. Two rabbits also came by. Thinking of how much commotion I could anticipate during the night and the resultant lack of sleep made be considered packing everything down and setting up camp somewhere else even though it would have taken a lot of time and effort. I am glad that I…
Day 90 Didn’t sleep well yet again. This was in part due to the dogs at or near the RV park barking at random things, which I was thinking could be a bear and in part due to traffic at the nearby road, California 95. I was slow to get going, so I didn’t totally get the head start that I was hoping for. After a mile or so of road walking the normal trail…