- Date: 2023-06-17
- Pct day: 44
- Start: Mile 624
- End: Mile 652
- Distance: 28 miles
- Ascent: 5751 feet
- Descent: 6102 feet
- Start name: Tentsite (1)
- End name: Walkers Pass
- Wake up: 05:15
- Start hiking: 06:10
- At camp: 18:50
- In bed: 21:00
- Where I slept: tent
- Shower: no
- Best thing: hiking with a new friend, Andrew
- Worst thing: blisters on my right foot
Key moments
- had an awful night of sleep, I was so thirsty, but only had about 700ml of water to see me through the 7.5 miles in the morning to the next water cache
- This water cache was pretty neat - it had heaps of water cooler bottles and also a stack of battery packs you could use to top up your electronics
- My tent zipper broke during the night but this meant one of my tent doors had to stay up, which actually helped me get to sleep
- got moving early to avoid the heat.
- There was some really crazy wind, super blustery
- Got to a water cache and had a nice conversation with a local who was driving past - he was flying model planes in the area, and said that on the high wind days the record is 570 miles per hour
- Met up with some other hikers at the water cache, and ended up hiking with a guy named Andrew for most of the day - he’s a particularly fast hiker and it felt good to be able to keep up with him
- We stopped in a hut near the trail and had a bit of a nap
- He’d just done something I’d dreamed about- doing the Te Araroa then the larapinta trail then the pct. Such a cool idea
Plan from here
- take it a bit easier tomorrow - maybe. 14 mile day?
Animals sighted
Gear thoughts
Physical condition
Thoughts and Observations
Some of the bad things
Quotes of the day
#pct #pct2023 #pctclassof2023
