Steve & Ray's Excellent Adventure

On the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in Washington State

Or... How to hike 500 miles in one week segments...

PCT Segment: Rainy Pass to Harts Pass - THIS SECTION HAS NOT BEEN HIKED YET

Miles: 31. Days: We plan to hike this in 4 days

Method: This segment was originally planned as part of a through hike between Rainy Pass and Canada, but with the border crossing issues, the extremely long car shuttle, and the poor water availability of this section of the hike, we decided to do Harts Pass to Canada via a loop hike, and leave this section between Rainy Pass and Harts pass to a future year. This is one of two 30 miles segments we have left to hike before finishing the state. From the looks of this section, water will be an issue, so making a shorter hike seems like a good idea - we can carry more water and less food. Also, since this is a shorter hike, it might be good to piggyback some nearby North Cascades hiking with this trip, or, you could do this hike on a year when you don't have a full week available for the hike.

Map

The map, below, shows our planned route, our planned camp locations (some have GPS Coordinates), and our planned car pickup and drop-off locations. Car drops are marked , and car pick-ups are marked . Direction of hiking is marked with a red arrow .

NOTE: This text overlays a large map - it WILL take some time to load - please be patient. Use your scroll bars to move around on this map. This section has not been hiked yet, so there are no pictures to click on - sorry!

Itinerary

The graphic, below, is an excerpt from a spreasheet that provides daily mileage, elevation gains and losses, and if available, GPS stops. Make sure to watch the direction of the arrows - arrows pointing up are hikes South to North, arrows pointing down are North to South. There is a key at the top of the graphic that will help explain this. The spreadsheet was included as a graphic in order to keep the overlayed graphics together. If you would like to download the entire spreadsheet, click this link for a Microsoft Excel file. Be advised that the spreadsheet has some macros, so depending on your security settings, it may warn you about macros possibly containing viruses. While there are no viruses included, the macros only move around on the sheet, and you don't really need to activate the macros if you don't want to.