September 25
If all goes as planned, I just packed up my tent for the last time on the PCT. It is 7:10 AM and I am hitting the trail. There is only a very light rain this morning. It was that way all night as well.
I left my campsite and dropped downhill into the valley at the bottom. I began uphill toward Rock pass, although it is a light sprinkle. Moderate at times. The views are still fairly good occasionally covered in fog the wind is blowing and it is cold, but as I hike I keep meeting hikers returning from the Terminus to Harts pass, we give a congratulations, a high five, and I’m told I’m almost there. It’s an incredible feeling and puts a little bit of an extra pep in my step with each encounter. I also came across a deer standing right by the side of the Trail.
I cross over rock pass, enveloped in a cloud with very little visibility to the mountains around me. As I look down to the valley on the other side, I can see a Trail zigzagging back-and-forth.
From Rock, Pass I descend halfway down into the valley, and then immediately head up towards Woody pass
As aIcross, Woody pass I take one final moment to snap some pictures of the mountains behind me that I will not see you again. I look ahead at the trail going through the trees and wonder where I will next go
The trail leads me up to a vista point where I can look at the north cascades. It is beautiful. From this point on I am downhill.
As I descend down, I can look at a lake below me. This will be the last US lake I see.
193 days. 2653.7 miles. I arrive at the northern terminus of the Pacific Crest Trail. I have so much to be thankful for. God has been with me on this entire journey. I have felt him regularly. I’m thankful for my wife and I told her I was thinking of this trip. Her response was go for it. My children have been supportive and Josh and Alyssa have sent me the packages Nate and Eli I’ve been supportive in conversation. My prayer warriors were effective. When I made a request, I often felt a change soon after. Today’s weather is a perfect example light rain for the first half of my hike I walk, and do the Terminus with no rain. Trail angel‘s step forward to help a perfect Stranger. There is a saying that the trail provides it is very true. However, I know it is God. A special thank you to Adam, Ryan and Julie. When I came out of Kearsarge pass sick of the snow and afraid I would not find clear trail up north all three of you told me I was not done you were right.
Today’s PCT miles hiked 19.6 (+ 8 non counted into Canadá)
Total PCT Miles hiked to date 2653.7
Miles left: 0
