My Pacific Crest Trail Hike in Numbers

Note: I have included the extra 30.3 miles that I had to hike SOBO at the end (Northern Terminus to Hart's Pass)

Trail distance hiked: 2684 mi / 4319 km

Actual distance hiked (detours/shortcuts/town walks etc): 2681 mi / 4313 km

Number of days: 118 (April 16 - August 11, 2022)

Number of hiking days: 112

Average distance/day: 22.7 mi / 36.5 km

Average distance/hiking day: 23.9 mi / 38.5 km

Time taken: 1151 hours

Average walking time/day: 9.7 hours

Average walking time/hiking day: 10.3 hours

Average pace: 2.3 mph / 3.75 kmph

Total ascent: 474,380 ft / 144,591 m

Total descent: 470,147 ft / 143301 m

Average ascent/day: 3984 ft / 1214 m

Average ascent/hiking day: 4198 ft / 1280 m

Number of Zero days: 6

Number of Nero (or less than full hiking) days: 35

Total distance covered in 35 Nero days: 681 miles (i.e. avg 19.5 miles/Nero day)

Number of resupplies: 23 (13 boxes mailed, 10 purchased in-town)

Average number of days of food carried between resupplies: 5

Maximum number of days of food carried: 9

Total Cost: $9243

Food: $2945

Gear: $2668

Lodging: $1478

Transportation (airfare, rental car, taxi etc): $1202

Phone & GPS Tracker Service Charges: $377

Misc (medicines, showers, laundry etc): $574

Comments

Sofie said…

I can't believe you (we) actually did this!!

September 19, 2022 at 12:01 AM

In-town & Trail Activities (D-45 @ 903.3 and D-46 4.3 miles plus 906.7 - 924.5)

I am still surprised how busy in-town zero days can be. You think that you have a lot of time to take care of everything that you had planned to do while hiking earlier. Yesterday, in Mammoth Lakes, first I had a large breakfast (very important thru-hiker activity) & then visited 3 different stores to research and buy new shoes & glove liners. Old ones were completely gone. Post that, went to the big grocery store to buy the resupply food till the next stop & as usual, got overwhelmed by the number of the items available, picked up excess items, realized I can't carry all this, put back a lot of stuff and still ended up with extra food to carry. Next stop was the pharmacy to get blister-care bandages, then a decent sized pizza lunch and then back to the room to sort and repack. Speaking of blisters, I have got 2 till now and I had to prick one of them with a needle a few days back and then cover it up. First time, I had to sterilize the needle in a flame and the...

The High (& sometimes scary) Passes of Seirras - Part 1 (D-38 760 - 774.7; D-39 774.7 - 795.5)

The 7 main mountain passes (a pass being the low-point saddle between two mountains that one has to cross to go on the other side of the mountain) that I had to cross were as follows (south to north): 1. Forester Pass (13200 ft / 4023 m) 2. Glen Pass (11957 ft / 3645 m) 3. Pinchot Pass (12127 ft / 3696 m) 4. Mather Pass (12094 ft / 3686 m) 5. Muir Pass (11970 ft / 3648 m) 6. Selden Pass (10913 ft / 3326 m) 7. Silver Pass (10778 ft / 3285 m) All of these passes have some ascent and then a descent and essentially, the descent of one pass leads to the ascent of the next without too much of a flat area in between. Because this was a low snow year (some reports put it as only 43% of the average trail snow which means a bad summer drought for California 🙁), hikers like me are able to enter the Seirras and hike through these passes so early. Of course, this also means that there is still quite a bit of snow left on the passes and around them, which makes them more difficult and...

My gear and my tramily (D-97 @ 2148 - Zero day)

Some of you have asked about what gear I am using. Since today is a Zero day (the last Zero day was on D-57) and there is nothing much to report other than the fact that I shipped the last set of resupply boxes to different places in Washington state and ate substantial amounts of food today, I figured I might as well talk about my gear, and also a bit about the other most essential component on the hike - my "tramily" (trail-family). Tent : 1-person Rainbow Li from Tarptent (bought new). This has worked very well for me and as you know from my earlier posts, Tarptent has given very good customer service too. I haven't had the chance to use the tent in heavy rain or snow (luckily) though and can't comment on it. I use a Tyvek ground sheet (already owned), also from Tarptent. Backpack : Catalyst from ULA (already owned). I started with Zpack Arc Air Robic 60L (bought new) and used it for 700 miles, but it was not comfortable at...

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