Pacific Crest Trail

• April 16, 2026

  Day 2 — Rain, a Rainmaker, and Mile 32Up at 6am, more or less in sync with everyone else at camp. Breakfast: oats, hot water, and a generous splash of Tabasco. Maybe unconventional, but it worked. When you’re carrying everything on your back and flavour is otherwise absent, you improvise. Fellow hikers offered suggestions — Noah filed them away for later. For now, the Tabasco oats did the job.

  Tea, pack up, boots on. Out by 7:45am — into light drizzle. It had rained heavily overnight and the morning stayed damp. Moving carefully to keep gear dry slowed things down, but the rain eased after a few minutes and the trail opened up again. After 3 or 4 miles, a small town appeared beside…

• April 16, 2026

  Day 1 — San Diego to the Southern Terminus

  It begins. Half a mile from the Mexican border, at the official southern terminus of the Pacific Crest Trail, the journey that has been months in the making finally started. The first stop was a small camp near the border, run by a crew of people who have already walked the PCT — some of…