Amelia's PCT Blog 2025

We had dinner together on the shore of the lake, waving across the lake to some other thru hikers who had camped nearby. It was just one of those amazing…

With the exception of climbing up hills while it’s super hot out, I’m never that far behind the rest of the group, and Roses made a comment yesterday,  You’re a…

Shortly after we got going this morning, I came around a bend and everyone was sitting there. I thought it was quite early for a break and the boys just…

We had hiked already about 4,000 ft of ascent and we were both pretty tired. Up ahead was Knife’s Edge, which is a section that can be dangerous when it’s…

Eventually my social battery just completely died and I went to meet everyone at the bar, but I really could barely talk to anybody. Four Fingers had a rental car…

Everything with this group is so light, so fun, so playful. It’s exactly what I really needed at this exact place in time. So much of the trail has felt…

The last 6 miles went by quickly. It was actually the first time any of us got a view of Mount Hood since it had been cloudy at the top…

When I saw them, it occurred to me that they were probably the people who had the southern accents – the people who had to camp in the bushes because…

After I left the Germans at the creek, I started ascending up a hill that was lined with blackberry bushes and what I think are blueberries, although they look quite…

I stopped for lunch on a ridge with an amazing view of the valley below. As I was sitting there, I kept hearing rocks falling from the rock cascade on…

Not too long after I got there, three boys were walking along the forest road presumably back to their car, and The Goddess and Cookies started yelling over to them.…

It feels like hiking through an absolute nightmare landscape of just weird rocks. It feels like you’re on another planet. The lava rocks are all loose rocks which hurt my…

It feels like I’m in a fake place. It’s so beautiful – between all the butterflies, the wildflowers, and the snow-covered mountains in the distance. It feels like I’m in…

We rounded a corner on the trail, and these white floating things started coming towards us through the air. The boys had been sitting on the trail behind the corner…

There is this culture on the trail, of people just pushing themselves to exhaustion, pushing past injuries to the point that it’s dangerous, pretending not to care about possible dangers.…