Author: Stein A. Rypdal

My friends Klaus and Lene are also visiting in California this summer. They are driving down the coast from Seattle to Los Angeles, so we decided to meet up in the town of Etna CA where we were crossing… Read more

I reached the halfway mark (mile 1325) on July 09th, day 67 after leaving the Mexican border. I stopped for a short while and got another hiker, Oddball, to take my photograph before hasting on another… Read more

Like most Norwegians I too have relatives in the US, and some of them live not too far from the PCT. My third cousin Caden lives with his family in Rocklin, just outside Sacramento, and once hearing… Read more

I just arrived at Donner Pass early morning on Saturday 30th of June after going through the High Sierras in less than 3 weeks. What an amazing experience it has been. I started from Kennedy Meadows… Read more

On the second day after Kennedy Meadows I had my first bear sighting. I was hiking alone at 8:30 in the morning as the trail rounded a meadow called Big Dry Meadow. As I was hiking through the forest… Read more