Hey! Has anyone else had their toenails stop growing the first month out? It happened to me on the PCT and now again while doing the CDT. My fingernails are still moving at a steady pace, but my toenails haven’t moved at all! Just wondering if it’s a thing.
My wife and I bought the Bronco for road trips with the teardrop. Stock tires on a base model so about as quiet as it gets as far as tires go. It’s so loud in there on the freeway our throats got sore from yelling a few hours into a trip, so we switched to podcasts. Couldn’t hear that either. So we listened to the garbage stock radio play music we could barely hear. We are back to doing road trips in the Honda Element.
We always take a long lunch break. Swim in a lake, look at a view, eat slow. It’s great!
I met my wife at Kennedy Meadows while waiting for my trail family to catch up. At least make it there and hang a few days on the patios at the general store and grumpy bears! So many people are hanging out there!
Hahaha! Yikes! I hope that doesn’t happen!!
It’s like a how Steve Brule pronounces every name on Check it Out!
The whales on Grant and Campbell are probably the most well known, but anything with animals on bikes, the lion on Ruthroff, the hot air balloons on 4th. A bunch of others as well :)
Patagonia micro puff, Smartwool 150 hoodie and a windbreaker was all I needed the whole PCT in 22
Where are all the Jetsons and Barbarella clothes?! We have self driving cars and AI terminator dogs! Where’s my giant, metallic collar on a skin tight, see-through onesie?
My buddy had a bunch of stuff stolen last year from his house in the foothills. Noticed his high end bikes a few houses down the street in the garage of his neighbors house the next week. The neighbor was all whatever about it. Blamed it on their kids.
I did the PCT and had all those fears… and it was great! It’s so easy to make friends because everyone is also out hoping to meet people. You can do as few miles as you need to ease in. You can take time off if you’re hurting. It was fantastic. And you know what… when I started the CDT this year I had all the same fears again. And it was fine again!
None of these things really fit in my idea of entrepreneurship. It sounds like you are good at school. Maybe consider an MBA? Entrepreneurs usually don’t pay someone else to join. They build something new, themselves, from scratch.
Odd Nerdrum. You kinda need to scroll through his stuff to see the range. Masterful oil painting with some very dark and intense subjects ranging from surreal to just haunting.
I needed a combo of LeukoTape and 5 toe liner sock (injinji for me) and a regular sock. The LeukoTape is sticky even on the back so it sticks to the first sock you have on but that sock can slip a tiny bit on the second. That combo got rid of all blisters for me which were terrible before.
It wouldn’t be the hiking trail I would start on. It’s far more frustrating and difficult. It does come with the excitement of real survival in more difficult terrain and weather extremes. I would say you can figure out 90% of everything you need to know about gear and planning on Halfway Anywhere’s site using the PCT survey and CDT survey. The only other thing you really need is the FarOut app for your GPS map and locations of water, alternate trails, etc. There are some good subreddits for both PCT and CDT but the PCT one is far more active and most advice crosses over to either.
Oh… yeah. I should clarify: I’m in no way recommending hiking on a broken foot. I’m currently on Reddit because I’m taking 4 zeros to rest a far more minor injury. It’s just a story of a thing that happened. No moral or guidance to follow in it :)
Edit: I hadn’t really considered the amount of snow that would be there and the fact that there may not be as many people there so early in June if it’s a high snow year. Check the PCT Snow Report page (Google it) and see how it’s looking. I did that section about 30 days later in the year and it was basically snow free in ‘22. Every year is different. — —original post below—
I had a friend go out and hike that section wearing new balance sneakers and town clothes. He brought dehydrated creamer and peanut butter as his only food and slept in a plastic refrigerator shipping bag to save weight. He lived… and made some changes on his next section hike. Honestly, there are so many hikers out there that if you have a problem on the trail someone will go past you every 20 minutes or so. Make sure he brings a Garmin inReach or equivalent so if he does get in REAL trouble he can get help. I hiked the full PCT with a few people who had never backpacked before, 2 I knew never even set up a tent before it and they all made it the whole way. It’s not as harrowing is you imagine. It’s like day hiking for 5 days at a time between grocery stores.
Freelance artist and muralist. Mostly large scale stuff. Been doing it about 20 years now. It was a slow ramp up to being able to make decent money at it but it comes with schedule freedom. I also used most of the money and free time to fix up a run down duplex and then a second home. Buy with 3% down and a horrifying monthly payment, work on it non-stop for a few years in all my free time and rack up a bunch of credit card debt to make it nicer, get a new appraisal with a better loan to value. Refinance at a much better rate and monthly payment now that the loan to value is acceptable. Work super hard paying off credit card debt how a while. Then… vacation! (This is more difficult right now because of current interest rates and housing prices. Hopefully it cycles. I’m worried it won’t.)
It took my head about 2 years for that to go away! Try getting some sun on it and letting it get beat up a bit. (Like getting scraped with low tree branches and rubbing on scratchy pillows.) Eventually the skin goes from baby soft and white to more of that tan, shiny bald look. It’s skin that has never needed to grow up or face any harsh realities, so it takes a bit of abuse from the world to for it to catch up with the rest of your head.
Like… why would I lie about it? What do I gain?
Do the convertibles get loud or uncomfortable on the highway?
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