I thought I would have more to say on this subject, but I don't — at least not for now. In 2019 I attempted to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. It was an unusually wet year, high precipitation. The preceding two decades had mostly been drought so 2018 and 2019 were outliers for how wet that they were. In 2018, two hikers had drowned in river crossing, and so everyone was on alert. The passes and the crossings were treacherous.
The conditions caused the usual bubble of thru hikers to disperse — some...
Published on March 25, 2025 06:22