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Pacific Crest Trail

I first planned to walk the Pacific Crest Trail in 2019. After several setbacks, I finally headed north in 2024 and made it to Canada. Along the way, landscapes changed and small communities formed, scattered and came together again.

Three hikers above the clouds with a mountain rising behind them

Tents and a lone figure in a snowy camp at sunrise

Two hikers crossing an ochre mountain slope

A hiker crossing a shadowed river

A lone hiker above a sea of cloud at dusk

Two hikers resting above layered mountains at sunset

A hiker standing on snow in dense fog

A hiker emerging from beneath an overhanging snowfield

A barefoot hiker crossing a flooded forest meadow

A blackened tree standing in a fire-scarred landscape

A forest stream photographed in black and white

Two figures silhouetted on a ridge at sunset

Five hikers swimming beneath a forest waterfall

Two hikers laughing together above a mountain valley

A distant figure above a cloud-filled valley

A solitary hiker crossing a snowfield at twilight

Snow-dusted ridges catching the first light

A panoramic view across a high alpine lake