Hiking With Gadget Girl

I started section hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2009 in three week segments with Jingle Bell and Forget-Me-Not. Great adventures were had but I wasn't going to complete this trail in my lifetime if I didn't kick it in gear and get more miles done each year. In 2016, my husband dropped my friend Seasoned Strider and I off at the Mexican border and we started our trek northward. I came off the trail at McCloud that year but finished the trail in August 2018. It was quite an emotional triumphant moment when I crossed over the same spot I started back in 2009. I raised my arms and yelled, "I finished it!" and a thru hiker who overheard me, yelled back, "CONGRATULATIONS"!

The JOURNEY

2009 - Started at Hwy 138, Oregon and hiked through to Cascade Locks with Jingle Bell and Forget-Me-Not 
2010 - Forest Road 23, Washington (Mt Adams) and hiked to Stevens Pass with Jingle Bell (Forget-Me-Not and Sole Duct went with us for the first week to White Pass) 
2011 - Stevens Pass aborted two days in due to massive snow, flipped to Rainy Pass south to Stehekin, then south from Mt Adams to Wind River, with Jingle Bell and Sole Duct 
2012 - Tuolumne Meadows to Bishop Pass - solo 
2013 - Reds Meadows to Mt Whitney (out Whitney Portal) with Jingle Bell 
2014 - Reds Meadows to Donners Pass with Jingle Bell 
2015 - Stevens Pass to Canadian Border (and back to Harts Pass), started with Jingle Bell and then finished solo 
2016 - Mexico Border to Ash Camp/McCloud with Seasoned Strider (Seasoned Strider continued on until Cascade Locks) 
2017 - Took a break... 
2018 - Ashland to McCloud and one week in Sierra with Seasoned Strider, then Ashland to Hwy 138 to the finish line finishing solo