by mcgarveysan | May 3, 2022 | Our lives, Pacific Crest Trail, PCT, PCT 2021
Finishing the Trail I’m looking at my PCT finishers medal as I type this and it’s hard to believe that it’s been three years since we began hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. I finished hiking the trail in September 2021 after 2652 miles of backpacking. ...
by mcgarveysan | Nov 16, 2021 | Hiking, Thru-hikes, Truck Camper Life Full time living
Spearfish, Lead, Deadwood & Sturgis Spearfish On our trip of the Northern Black Hills of South Dakota, we started in Spearfish. It’s only a half hour drive from Sundance, Wyoming and is just a bit over the state line. We were finally in The Dakotas and I...
by mcgarveysan | Nov 2, 2021 | Day Hikes, Hiking, Truck Camper Life Full time living
Devils Tower National Monument is actually named Bear Lodge or Grizzly Bear Lodge by the Native Americans, who lived in this area for the 10,000 years before white men came. It sits in northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. The tower rises 1,267 feet...
by mcgarveysan | Oct 26, 2021 | Day Hikes, Hiking, Truck Camper Life Full time living
Mushroom Hunting on Our Bucket List Mushroom hunting has been on our bucket list for quite some time, and our son, Matt, finally helped us check it off! That doesn’t mean we went once and we’re done, though. Since we had such a good time, we’ll be...
by mcgarveysan | Oct 19, 2021 | Day Hikes, Hiking
Climbing Mt St Helens has been on my bucket list for a while, but after my 50th birthday a few years back, it made it closer to the top of the list. Prior to my birthday, we sent out lots of party invitations and we included return postcards asking for and receiving...
by mcgarveysan | Sep 14, 2021 | Hiking, PCT, PCT 2021, Thru-hikes
Day:258 Direction: Southbound Trail location: 1954 Cumulative miles hiked 2019/2021: 2620 Cumulative miles hiked 2021: 623Miles hiked today: 24.9Elevation: 6051 High/low temp/humidity: 70/52/10 Spinning on the turntable: Yann Tiersen: EUSA So here we are, you...