Hike the pacific crest trail

“Hadley and I ate lunch, and it started drizzling just as we finished up. That drizzle slowly turned into a steady rain, which turned into an absolute downpour. I thought I was in the desert?? I laughed a little as I hiked, the rain felt familiar after many rainy days on the Appalachian Trail. The wind began, and soon my raincoat and rain pants were soaked through and I started shivering. After 12.1 miles, Hadley and I set up our tents on a ridge, getting all of our belongings wet in the process.”

“The trail tested me for the first time for real when the elevation gain started to become significant and there were I’m guessing around 100 fallen trees that you had to climb over, under or around. While I saw it first as a fun obstacle race, after 50 trees even I got tired of it. And then the patches of snow started to show up and eventually turned into endless snow. The stretch after that was the climb to the summit of San Jacinto.”