This question deserves its own post.We started this audio zine after struggling to find media focussing on queer people's experiences of the outdoors. I’m more afraid of dehydration and rattlesnakes. I took a sabbatical from work and will be returning in October. I’m estimating that we will spend ~$15,000 total for the both of us on the entire hike. The old estimate going around the internet was to budget about $1,000 a month, but I think that is a bit outdated. We will stop in towns and occasionally stay in motels, visit restaurants, and resupply our food. I thoroughly enjoyed Carrot’s honest account of their thru-hike.
If you are going to read a book about the PCT, I recommend another PCT thru-hiker’s book instead: Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart by Carrot Quinn. I read the book Wild when I was in the Peace Corps in 2015 or 2016. Have you read the book or watched the movie Wild? Many of the towns near to the trail are smaller and won’t have major grocery stores, so we will shop where we can.Ħ. In the larger towns, we will shop at grocery stores.
We have been dehydrating a lot of meals ourselves, and my mom has graciously agreed to mail us our dehydrated meals along the way! Every 5 or so days, we will hike into a nearby town and resupply our food from a combination of food mailed from home and shopping in stores. How will you be carrying and resupplying your food? Check out the PCT Association’s FAQ site for more information on the trail. We plan to hike straight from the Mexican border to the Canadian boarder, however we will likely need to adjust our hiking plan based on the weather, specifically the record amount of snow in California. We are starting on May 25, and will be thru-hiking (aka, hiking the whole damn thing) until the end of September/early October. The trail is 2,650 miles and stretches from the Mexican border to the Canadian border through California, Oregon, and Washington.
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