First Post On New PCT Blog

Here we go.

The first blog post in this PCT 2017 blog.

This is awkward. Feels weird.

I am going to hike the Pacific Crest Trail next year (2017) and I am going to blog about it.

Not from day 1 when the hike starts at the Mexican border in Campo (California). But as of now. Five month pre-hike time. Because, you would not think how much there is to organize and how much “head scratching” there is. Could be really interesting to blog about all this.

So here we go. Hope you join me on my journey.

The list of things to do seems endless:

• Read blogs from boys and girls who have already hiked the PCT
• Contemplate which tent, stove, backpack, sleeping bag, cloths, camera, and most importantly, which shoes to buy!
• Get maps and study them to find out how to organize resupply on the hike
• Get and read books which have been written about the PCT
• Figure out how to get an US SIM card
• Get an USA visa
• List goes on forever

My Usual Hiking Habitat

From my research so far I know that the first 700 miles (I need to learn to think in miles now) are through the desert.

Hot. Dry. Rattlesnakes. Poodle-Dog bush.

I know what you are thinking now: “What the hell is a Poodle-Dog bush?”.

That’s exactly what I was thinking too. I had no idea they exist, but apparently they live in the desert and hurt you lots if you get too close to them.

My normal hiking habitat is the Bernese Oberland. Switzerland. It looks somewhat like this.

Not hot. Not dry. No rattlesnakes. No Poodle-Dog thingy bush.

Guess I will have to adapt.

It is all about “attitude”, right?

Today’s Learning:
“It is not easy to write the first sentence in a new blog“.