It’s April of 2022 and we are officially two years away from our hike. The Class of 2022 is just starting to hike. The PCT opened up for Northbound on March 1st. I’m following hikers on YouTube and Instagram heading north. Below: Marketa and David Daley with Sequoia (almost 5), Joshua (3.5) and Standa who…
Always excited to record with Chantal and catch up with her and bug her a little. She didn’t get my joke at the bottom of the Instagram post. I had to explain that she took a fall and someone took the photo so when I fall in the future that I hope I have a…
It’s hard to track down this one down. Busy, Busy… Busy. Reaching Out To New Hikers & Inviting Them To Our Podcast As A Guest: We have a list of people interested that we asked a year ago and we also have been reaching out to some new people to hopefully record over the winter…
Hey Look Chantal… We are in the 5’s Always crazy to think that when I asked Chantal if she wanted to try to attempt this… we were close to 1,200 days away. Camping & Hiking At Charleston Provincial Park | Sep 25 to 27th This past weekend, Heidi and I headed to Charleston Provincial Park…
Group Camping Trip to Silent Lake Provincial Park We hit Silent Lake Provincial Park north of Peterborough for a two-night stint with a group. My two kids (Chantal and Noah) and Heidi came with her Daughter Chloe and her GF KJ. My friend Michelle came with her dog Lucy and Heidi’s friend Renyolds also came….
Dan bought a backpack. The Osprey Aether 65 Litre pack to test out this summer. This pack helps with the weight. Since I’m not ultralight, I need a pack to carry the volume I need and the weight. This pack carries loads between 30 and 60 lbs. It’s a bit heavy itself, but if it’s…
We dropped Episode One of our Podcast: It totals 20 minutes in length and it covers a simple introduction of the two of us. We used Anchor to make it and it’s on Spotify, Apple, and 7 other podcast platforms. You can listen to it here. We will be interviewing two hikers who have completed…
Below is what’s up with us as the year closes down. We have saved $6,400 so far for this adventure. We have spent $6,250 on expenses prepping for this hike with gear. Spending will slow down as we save up some more for the final gear we need and the amount we need to hike…
Working on Trail Notes & Trying To Calculate How Long It Will Take Us: Went to the dollar store and picked up some 2021 desk calendars to rip apart. Used April 1st as a starting date just to try and calculate each day on how far we might hike and where we would take a…
I think these updates will move to every two months since the spending has slowed down a bit & the trip is still far away. Still researching: I’ve been watching more vlogs covering North of Agula Dulce and up into Kennedy Meadows… into the Sierra Mountains and Northern California since that is more new to…
