Father & Daughter Hiking The Pacific Crest Trail 2024 | Mexico To Canada | The Six Month Long Walk North

It’s like walking from Toronto to Vancouver… but through the mountains the whole way.

I’m Dan above and I’ll be 53 in 2024 and my Daughter Chantal will be 23 when we attempt to Thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail when she finishes college this April.

Above: This is the Southern Terminus located at the Mexican border wall outside Campo, California. This is where we will sign the trail register and start walking north. We will take some photos for the gram and we will set off.

Below: Is the trail that we will hike north. We both have this poster below. You will notice it shows the elevation along the whole trail along the left side.

We will break down the different sections that we will hike in the next post after this…

But lets give you a taste of it and logistics we will face.

The first 700 miles is the desert section. It’s not all flat and hot. Lots of elevation, wind and cold nights.

Above: This is cowboy camping. Easy set up & easy to get walking to warm up the next morning.

Below: When the desert is too hot to walk we can hike into the night and have a siesta in the day and rest when the sun is directly above us.

In March of 2020, Trevor Laher slipped on ice under the trail and fell down a ravine on Apache Peak 11 days into his hike. He camped the night before his accident 13 miles from town where he would pick up his ice axe and micro-spikes for Mt. Jacinto. We interviewed his Dad on our podcast in episode 9.

Around every 3-5 days we will get ourselves to a road that will lead us into town via hitchhike and we can resupply, eat a burger, organize our daily meals for the next stretch and do chores like laundry, charge everything and our battery banks, repair gear and focus on the next stretch. In the Sierras we might have to go 4-8 day stretches with extra gear and lugging a fat little bear can.

We can mail boxes of food for stretches there is not a good supply or really expensive/little selection.

Hiker midnight will probably be 7pm in the Sierras with the cold nights we will eat and make some tea before bed and we will be exhausted and will crash and nobody will be awake to hear our farts.

The race to the Canadian border before the snow really covers the trail puts the pressure on to finish safely so we don’t have to stop our hike.

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The Pacific Crest Trail in the West makes up the Triple Crown.