2008

This is me just after I finished!  161 days, 4829 miles...

This was my view in the the earlier am on my second to last...

This is me speeding along after a good night sleep....

This was me 50 miles into a 80 miles day.  Did I mention it...

Everyone knows your supposed to seam seal your tent right....

Today was the day!  Today I finished.  125 days from the day...

Wow, it was cold last night!  Today was my last full day of...

This day was so different from yesterday.  The forest and...

A short 19 miles today.  The weather looked like rain all...

For once it was mostly down hill today.  I travelled down...

Today was another marathon plus day at 29 miles.  I got to...

What can I say, Glacier Peak Wilderness was incredible....

This was the scene when I woke up on Trap Pass.  I knew the...

I woke to partly cloudy skies.  The weather would toy with...

Yes, rain again!  I wasn’t very happy once again this...

As you can see raining still.  This was a shitty shitty day....

I didn’t see much today.  It was mostly clear cut and...

Today like most of the days prior was filled with awesome...

This day started off quite foggy but by lunch it was sunny...

Her majesty in all her glory.  Rainier looked so impressive...

Goat Rocks!  I took close to 70 pictures this day.  It was...

This is a great view of the western glacier on Mt. Adams.  I...

On this day I saw three volcanos at one time.  This is Mt....

Are these the coolest mushrooms you’ve ever seen?...

This isn’t the most exciting picture of the day but...

This day starter wet and I never thought it would ever dry...

Besides Mt. Hood being on big sand dune and completely...

After seeing a miniature backhoe earlier I wasn’t...

I was pretty tired on this morning considering I hiked until...

This is one of my favorites.  Like many of my days this one...

This is just a small area of the vast, and I mean vast lava...

This picture shows Mt. Washington, Three Fingers, and Mt....

Here is another shot of the cabin.  Pretty friggin sweet...

This is Backtrack in one of the few closed cabins along the...

This picture show Mt. Thielson in the distance.  It always...

I half circumnavigated Mt. Thielson.  It was quite the site....

My packages didn’t show up again and I decided to wait...

Crater Lake was incredible.  As you can see the water is so...

Isn’t he so cute you just want to huge him?

There were lots of beautiful views on this day but anyone of...

Now this is what I call a hotel.  If your wondering, yes,...

It took me 1700 miles to get to this sign!  I was so happy I...

My first day in OR and Shasta was looking beautiful once...

Okay, you can’t see it but that pancake is an inch...

There was no one inside but it was still pretty and made me...

The Marble Mountain Wilderness at it’s finest.  I...

My buddy Wes (ba), picked me up and I took a day off with...

I loved seeing trail like this since I knew it was easy...

I love this shot from the Trinity Alps Wilderness.  Northern...

This is just a cool shot that captures the PCT, in my mind.

Oh the waiting!  Check out the dirt on the legs after just...

A beautiful view of Mt. Shasta.  Today had a lot of climbing...

AHHH! easy footing.  

Burney Falls!  Just a mile upstream the river that feeds...

This day brought 105 degree temps., rain, thunder and...

This was a very hot day!  I hungout at a trail angel’s...

This shot was taken in the am and as you can see the...

On this day  I entered Lassen National Park and a highly...

When I saw this my first thought was “WOW, I have to...

I’ve seen bigger……

Check out the health diet!  We ate like kings and queens on...

Need I say more……..

The note on the sign says it all, though the 12 or so...

This shot is of the stump bear #2 was ripping apart when I...

We were all happy to get back in the woods after being in...

Silver (left), Backtrack (right) and myself took a zero day...

This was a self portrait I took on the way to Donner Pass....

This was me trying to make my breakfast.  I ended up walking...

This was a man made lake north of Echo Lake.  The built a...

This was the sunset on the second day of the fire.  I took...

Today was the start of the Tahoe fire.  It was really odd to...

This day started with a long climb and it got hot fast....

A picture is worth a thousand words……….or...

There were many beautiful shots from this day like all the...

This day started with unique toilets and ended with terrible...

This is one of my favorite shots from the whole trip....

If you look closely you can see a waterfall coming from the...

On this day I went from civilization (if you can call a high...

This was the prettier side of the day.  After descending...

Coming over this ridge and seeing this view was...

This is the John Muir Hut on Muir Pass.  It had the most...

Again this was a long day.  Almost two passes and lots of...

This day was super long and very tiring for some reason....

The first day back into the Sierra started with heavy packs...

Zero Day!  I spent most of my day, sitting around this hotel...

Bullfrog Lake.  This day brought us out of the Sierra and...

Today was another milestone.  Forrest Pass, the highest...

This is me on top of Mt. Whitney.  I heard stories of how...

I froze my ass off this night!  It’s was 20 degrees...

Big peaks hiding in wait for me!

Ah…. the Sierra at last!  My first day was tough on...

Wounded Knee makes his way up from on of the beautiful...

Zero day #2.  Starting to look pretty...

Today was a zero day and I spent it hanging around this...

This was the nicest view of the day since the landscape was...

This was my second to last day before I got to the Sierra....

This picture gives a good idea of what the terrain was like....

I followed these bear tracks for about 2 miles.  He was...

The girl hiking with us found this on her bed roll in the am...

This was a cool.  This snake only stuck his tongue out once...

This sums up this day.  A very long lunch break to make up...

This picture shows the open space I crossed and then some....

I remember this day being long and hot.  I actually recall...

It looks like resort living but it wasn’t.  I enjoyed...

Lucky for me I found better food than this during my time...

Vasques Rocks, used in many scifi tv shows and movies.  This...

May 19th.  This was another really hot day.  We slept right...

May 18th.  This day brought my first trail closure and added...

May 17th.  This tree was reported to be over 1500 years old....

May 16th.  This was a beautiful start to a long hot day....

May 15th.  Yeah, I looked inside.  Yeah, it was a mistake.

Of course as the Scatman I was thrilled to see this, a...

It wasn’t that hot on this day but pretty damn hot.

Even though I had beautiful scenes like this one the first...

Today was my first Zero Day.  I spent the better part of the...

Yeah I drank from there.  Well actually the bucket which was...

May 9th This burnt out mess was my day.  The whole day!  Up...

May 8th  This picture pretty much sums up this day.  No...

May 7th I remember this day to be very hot and hard.  The...

This is from the climb around Mt. San Jacinto.  I loved this...

It was about here I got one of my many nose bleeds from the...

This was a cold and foggy morning just north of Warner...

Day off with the folks spent at the hot springs.

Eagle Rock just outside Warner Springs, CA.