Amelia's PCT Blog 2025

We found out that the dog’s name was Whitaker. He had once followed hikers all the way here, and the coast guard actually picked him up and brought him home…

The last 4 miles of the trail felt like the absolute longest 4 miles I’ve ever walked in my entire life. Of the thousands of miles I walked on the…

I look unbelievably happy in all of the photos of me on the terminus. I think I look strong and beautiful. With my messy hair, dirty clothes, no makeup, and…

Maybe 15 minutes later, Bodybag came over again to my tent and said Amelia. We’ve got to go. NOW. There was more smoke coming from further down in the valley.…

I want to hold onto the magic of the trail as long as I possibly can. The people who pop up when you least expect them. The smiles, the knowing…

It wasn’t until I was laying in bed that I realized that the trail was really coming to an end, and I wouldn’t see many of these people again. I…

We talked about being the slow one in the tramily, and she said that was why she had gone up ahead of the group because it was hard for her…

First Polka Dot came over to say goodbye, and it felt again like one of the worst goodbyes I’ve had to say on the trail because it felt like a…

I went down to the river with Marmot and they said goodbye, and that it was really nice to have met me. I only met Marmot briefly at Trail Days…

After spending time with my tramily, who are all such delightful people, I think some of their charm and carefreeness has rubbed off on me. I feel so light, all…

They gave me a ride to the dock, and in the truck, I was asking them questions about how they operated on the lake and about the ferry boats. I…

Sometimes I’d come down an aisle and Fonda would just crash his cart into mine, pretending we didn’t know each other, saying excuse me, excuse me. These boys are like…

I waited and soon heard some cars coming. I put my thumb out and about seven or eight cars went by. Nobody pulled over. I started getting worried. I had…

I saw two trail runners running toward me on the trail. No backpacks. I then realized it was Fonda and Warpaint. They saw me and told me to give them…

At the top of the climb, there was a pond that Fonda, Bap, Rocky and Roses were sitting at, and we had lunch. We talked about our fears of the…

When I got to the final ascent, I went around a ridge or a saddle I guess you could call it, and it came out to this view of the…

The next section is a lot of climbing. There’s about 7,000 ft of elevation gain in the first 15 miles out of Snoqualmie. I don’t want to have to do…