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: Harts Pass to the Canadian Border - August 6-13, 2005

Miles: 62. Days: 8

Method: This hike differs from most of our hikes because we did a loop rather than a through-hike. We did not want to deal with either the terribly long car commutes required to go to Canada, nor the border crossing issues. As a result, we only covered half as many PCT miles, but I feel this was well worth it. We started at Slate Peak, hiked via alternate trails until we joined the PCT not far from the border, we day hiked to the border, and then back on the PCT to Harts Pass. We did this via 2 cars, but it could just as easily be done with one car (the segment joining Slate Peak and Harts Pass is not that long).

Map

The map, below, shows our route, our camp locations (some have GPS Coordinates), and our 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 . Photos along the route are marked by icons - clicking on the camera will bring up a new window with the associated picture (icon locations are approximate - I did not get an exact spot for each picture). Simply close the photo window to go back to the map.

NOTE: This text overlays a fairly large map - it WILL take some time to load - please be patient. Use your scroll bars to move around on this map, and click on camera icons to see photos taken from approximately this point on the trail.

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.