Serge Pikhotskiy

Washington is hands down our most favorite state on this trail. PCT has saved the best for last. Often times Serge and I regret how fast we have went through...

Boy did taking 3 days off help us recover. Doing absolutely nothing, laying in our hotel room and staring at the wall, we patiently waited for the bug to make...

So now we are in Oregon, and we are TIRED. At this point we have been on the trail for almost 4 months and our bodies are exhausted. Probably mentioned...

Well, our animal encounters did not stop here! Coming out of the town of Mt.Shasta, about 8 miles in from town, the trail was curving in a shape of a...

Just when we thought the dessert days were over. Waking up at 3am to walk 30 waterless miles felt harsh (no natural sources of water, making us carry enough H2O...

Northern California terrain by any means is not flat. Even though we are out of Sierras, we still have to climb hills every day. Especially if we go into towns...

The number of PCT thru-hikers greatly reduces after Lake Tahoe. Why? It is considered amongst many that Sierras is the most beautiful & challenging part of the PCT. Once a...

We left Tuolumne on 4th of July, passing by places where we have walked with our moms just a few days ago. Once out of the touristy over crowded trails,...

After taking 8 days off to spend with our moms it was extremely difficult to get back on the trail. Although we got plenty of rest, it almost felt like...

Maybe it were the countless Facetimes where they saw how skinny our faces are getting, maybe it was the interest to see the beauty that they have never seen before,...

After taking a day zero in Kennedy Meadows (KM) to recharge our batteries before we headed out into the Sierras. There are several resupply stops once you enter the mountains...

This is our last stretch in the desert before hitting Kennedy Meadows - entry to Sierra Wilderness. This was also the hardest stretch for us on the trail so far....

We got back to the trailhead at around 2:00PM. The sun was positioned directly over the top of our heads and with the complete lack of shade there was no...

Our next stop is a small town of Agua Dulce. The town is so small, it does not even have a hotel or a laundromat. You may ask, where would...

Our favorite times of the day are early mornings and evenings. There is something magical about those hours. Waking up with the first bird song when everything else is still...

nforeseen stop. There will be a separate post on food situation but for this post I wanted to give a little bit of background on our food resupply strategy. Some...