Category: Pacific Crest Trail

• The gear I used on my thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail

  The Pacific Crest Trail was my first long-distance hike, actually, it was my first real hike ever, so when I started planning, I had no gear what so ever, which meant I had to buy everything. I spent months researching and reading about gear 🙂 During my researching, I realized that most of the gear […]

• This Cartoonist Is Drawing Her Way up the Pacific Coast

  This Great Big Story is by Coors Light, Celebrate Responsibly® 2018 Coors Brewing Co., Golden, CO On my thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail back in 2018, I was lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time (at the Water cache just after Crater Lake) to be part of a little […]

• My Pacific Crest Trail Tattoo

  You might know that I got a hiking tattoo before I started my thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, that was all the way back in 2017, which You can read about here.It’s in Danish though, so you might need to Google translate it 🙂 Back then I also decided that I wanted another tattoo…

• My Pacific Crest Trail thruhike (PCT) 2018

  This corner of my website is basically just a boiled down version of the site I made specifically for my PCT adventure. I just wanted to get all my travel info/stories in the same place so I decided to copy most of my old website over here. Me And The PCT I started the Me…

• Post PCT / PPCTSD

  Post PCT or (PPCTSD) Post Pacific Crest Trail Stress Disorder 🙂 Getting back to normal life, real life, civilization etc. has been hard for me – way harder than I actually thought it would be. The PCT has shown me how beautiful a simple life can be. And by simple I mean just having to […]

• Weight Before And After My PCT 2018 Thruhike

  On September 14. I arrived back in Copenhagen after completing the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail). And I just want to show how the trail affected my weight before and after my PCT 2018 thru-hike. Sadly I didn’t get my weight before or after, but during my journey (I think it was somewhere in northern California) I […]

• My Youtube Vlog

  My Exciting adventure has now begun, so the rest (or at least that’s the plan) of my adventure will be happening on my Youtube Vlog / channel – in English! 😉 It will be too time-consuming to have a video diary and a blog as well, so, for now, it will be videos 🙂 My plan is […]

• My setup for the PCT – almost

  Now I got my gear dialed down to what I will bring on the PCT. So this is my setup for the PCT – almost 🙂 I still need to buy water storage (I bought the Cnoc Vecto water bladder, but the first 2 I got leaked water) and water purifier – which will be […]

• Pre hike realisations

  When I first started to research and plan for my 2018 thruhike of the PCT, I had a clear indication that camera equipment should be kept to an absolutely minimum. Now one year later, pre hike realisations - I’ve come to realise that I might be straying a little from that initial idea 🙂 Late in…

• Sony Nordic is sponsoring memory cards for the trip

  Sony Nordic are donating a stack of memory cards. Last post in Danish! Promise. Tuesday morning, 8:43, and I am on my way out the door to work when my phone rings. Unknown number. Great, the cold callers are on the hunt again. But curious as I am...

• The lost kilos

  Here is the story of Rod and the lost kilos. It is also a good excuse to take a "before picture", so I can compare my body before and after my thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail. Back in November I already sensed that I would not get many chances to train...

• The waiting game

  I have now reached the point in the process where "everything" is in place, and the waiting game can begin. That is the hardest part of the whole thing, I have to admit. Time drags, but I think I can win this waiting game. There are still a couple of small things...

• Checklist for the Pacific Crest Trail

  Things are starting to move quickly now! The time is approaching fast and the butterflies in my stomach are getting bigger and bigger. My checklist for the Pacific Crest Trail is under control (the "big" things, at least). So there is not much more I can do other than wait...

• Hiking dictionary

  Like any other hobby or sport, there are a fair few words used by people who hike a lot. So I have put together a small "dictionary", or list if you prefer, of the typical words you might run into along the way. There are many more, but these are probably the ones you will hear or read about...

• You can follow my hike live

  Now it becomes possible for you to follow my hike LIVE. On Black Friday I invested in a GPS/SOS device. One of those can send GPS coordinates, so you can see on a map where I am as I go. The one I chose to buy was a SPOT Gen3...