PCT Lessons Learned
- Always bring one extra snack from town
- Ownership of sunglasses is fluid
- Eat something every 5 miles (or you will pass out)
- Eat a meal before you plan a resupply (the equivalent of grocery shopping hungry, but 100x worse Because you have to carry everything 100 miles)
- Underwear is optional (kind of)
- “Don’t feed the NOBOs” (NOrthBOund hikers)
- LASH means Long Ass Section Hike (hiking the pct over many years)
- “Never play leapfrog with a unicorn”
- Apply soap and water generously to a sleeping pad (e.g. a bubble bath) to a sleeping pad to locate a leak. You will be able to hear the air escaping more easily when inflated.
- Dew is your worst enemy.
- Clean is relative (thru hikers can be VERY dirty, thus we are frequently complimented for looking “so clean”, I attribute this greatly to Daphne)
- PNW = Pacific North Wet (even when it doesn’t rain, dew in grass and bushes will constantly make your feet wet...
- Ranch can go on anything, and anything can go on sweet potato fries.
