My son Aaron was hiking through a burn section on the Continental Divide Trail and made this comment. “A good visual of how much fuel is left (a ton!) even after a really hot and destructive fire like this one.” #cdt #thruhiking #hiking

A few pics from my son Aaron on the trail. #cdt #hiking #thruhiking

@BakerRL75 #PCTA #PCT #PacificCrestTrail #hiking #backpacking #thruhiking #throughhiking

That here is the opposite of #ultralight #hiking!
https://mastodon.art/@ChadHillPhotos/110487500083765965

#UltralightHiking #thruhiking

My son Aaron just finished and throughly enjoyed a 60 mile hike here in Az along the base of the Mogollon Rim. I dropped him off Tuesday morning about 9:30 am and picked him up about 9:30 am today (Friday) near Pine Az. Last year he hiked Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail as well as completing the Az Trail from Mexico to Utah border. Next in his agenda is Southern Wyoming to Mexico along the #cdt through a section of the Rocky Mountains. #aztrail #thruhiking #solohiking #hiking

A little bit of my heart goes away when I drop hikers we’ve hosted back at the trail 💔 Carol and Cathy continuing SOBO yesterday.

But then Cathy’s knee issue persisted and she came back 🤗 She’s going to stay and recover more while her son drives down from Oregon to join her. Then they’ll support her husband who’s also on trail elsewhere as he gets up into the Sierra (he’s a winter alpine guy). Fun family, nice to connect.

#PacificCrestTrail #Hiking #ThruHiking #TrailAngel

Woo, laundry room full of hiker gear 🤗

Hosting our first thru hikers of the season. Carol (Fairbanks AK) and Cathy (Bend OR). Both retired, they met on trail at Mt Laguna and flipped north together to Tehachapi when Cathy’s husband continued over Jacinto with some Austrians.

We met on trail Saturday near Lake Hughes, told them to call when they got to Agua Dulce. Fun vibe on trail this season, everyone flipping and flopping around the snow.

#PacificCrestTrail #ThruHiking #Hiking #HikerTrash

Small fact: the PCT isn’t finished. This section across the western Mojave desert floor is a ‘temporary’ bypass due to land access issues in the Tehachapi mountains. It’s 18 junk miles of dirt roads to the trail on the other side.

What’s funny is 6 miles of it is on this rusty aqueduct pipe which somehow became an iconic part of the trail now over the years🤣🤣

#PacificCrestTrail #ThruHiking #Hiking

Makes me think if she could do it, I could do it. Would need a lot of that outside support, though.

#AppalachianTrail #ATthruHiker #thruHiking #toughBroad #kudos #PamelaClark #BirthdayGirl

https://thetrek.co/appalachian-trail/pamela-clark-is-on-track-to-become-the-oldest-female-at-thru-hiker-ever/

Tour of town if you’re hiking through. Get a picture with the sign, eat at the Mexican place across the street, visit Trish at the hardware store, and Trish told me a new shop is going in the end unit and they’ll be adding stock for hikers 👍
#AguaDulce #PacificCrestTrail #Hiking #ThruHiking

🥳 RNTUL and Unicorn just kicked off their #AT northbound thru hike from the Springer approach at Amicalola Falls 📍🧭

We hosted them at our place on their PCT ‘21 thru hike when they passed town, and I caught up with them in the Sierra. They’re fun, he vlogs daily.

First episode link, sub if you want to follow along.
https://youtu.be/UGq0g_SsEQA

#Hiking #ThruHiking #AppalachianTrail #HappiestKnownTime

:pacificcresttrail:
Northbound thru hikers start March 1st. Earliest I’ve seen one in Agua Dulce is March 18th (25 mile days, no zeros, 450 miles from Mexico).

Early hikers are generally the experts, the big bubble in the middle is the party crowd, and the stragglers at the end.. well we just kind of pray for them.

The few southbounders that trickle through in autumn have already gone 2,100 miles and are on their own trip by then. I don’t engage.

#PacificCrestTrail #Hiking #ThruHiking

Northbound quota permits start March 1st. Earliest thru hiker I’ve seen arrive in town (mile 453) was March 18th. Let’s see this year.

#PacificCrestTrail #Hiking #ThruHiking #VasquezRocks

Some of my trail scouting reports from the weekend.
#PacificCrestTrail #TrailMaintenance #Hiking #ThruHiking

I just dropped a (green) m&m on the pavement of herzel street. I picked it up, brushed it, looked around, and ate it. #thruhiking #thruhikerforever

I visit this #PCT trail register on the north end of town often.

In spring it’s nice to see when the first northbound hikers start passing. Also nice to see the numbers per day grow until the giant summer bubbles (often 50-70 people per day for a week). And then it’s nice to see when the smaller trickle of southbound hikers start passing in autumn.

I think I’ll paint it this winter so it doesn’t look so uncared for.

#Hiking #ThruHiking #PacificCrestTrail #California #HighDesert

Here's a cover I drew for my #Transformers fan #comic in the style of the classic US National Parks posters. Was always pretty proud of this.

You can read the whole comic online here (there's also a link to purchase a printed copy): https://lofrequency.net/hlh/

#MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #ComicArt #Illustration #PenAndInk #FountainPen #Kaweco #PacificCrestTrail #ThruHiking #Hiking #Outdoors #California

Smiles (AKA Daisy Hikes) is back on trail and starting her second thru hike of the Florida trail. Her vlogs are starting to post. She’s genuine, I like her. PCT twice, CDT, AT twice, FT, AZT, quite an accomplished long distance hiker and completely nonobvious and unassuming. (link to first vlog)
#ThruHiking #Hiking #LongDistanceHiking #FloridaTrail

https://youtu.be/mmqlEbAWzUU

Long distance thru hiker Arlette Laan (aka Apple Pie) is giving a free zoom presentation (Jan 17, 10:30am est).

She is the first woman to thru hike all 11 national scenic trails (6th person ever recorded). Fantastic person. Images from her Instagram, link to her profile there where the free register link is.

#Hiking #ThruHiking #PacificCrestTrail #AppalachianTrail #ContinentalDivideTrail

https://instagram.com/arlette_laan?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Yes, yes? No, no? 🥳

#happyHappyHappy #TGOChallenge #hiking #thruhiking #coast2coast #scotland