The Hills are Alive

As I mentioned before one of my goals is to start hiking the PCT. This weekend Heath, Damon, and I will be hiking the Timberline to Cascade Locks stretch of the PCT. We will start close to dawn on Saturday and finish Monday afternoon/evening. We're hoping to hike an average of 16 miles per day. While this may not seem too ambitious to some hikers, this is very ambitious for our group. We aren't exactly triathlon competitors, unless it's a pinball-pool-darts competition. In fact I'm willing to take bets on how much weight I'll loose on this hike. A few years back during one of our Three Creek backpacking trips I lost 10lbs over the course of the weekend. I'm willing to bet this time it'll be more like 15lbs. Which will be a good kickoff to getting back into my workout routine. We're planning to document our adventure as thoroughly as possible. We'll have a plethora of digital photography equipment, a video camera, voice recorder, GPS unit, and good old fashion pencil & paper. So in a worst case scenario you'll have plenty of footage and journal entries to compile a Blair Witch style documentary of our travels. But let's all just think good thoughts and hope we complete the hike, safely, and on schedule. I'll post a write-up and gallery of pics on the site when we return. For anyone who's interested here are some links to maps of the trail we'll be hiking (The thick red line is the PCT). Sections: G1-G2, G2-G4, G4-G5, G5-G7.