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June 2, 2015 Gear, Gear reviews, Pacific Crest Trail, PCT Trailjournal Leave a comment favorite gear Pacific Crest Trail PCT

My first 40 days on the PCT: Thoughts on gear, food and other stuff

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Catching up on our time in the Eastern Sierra past June and July. This beautiful dayhike along the North Fork of Big Pine Creek to Second Lake and Temple Crag killed my hips but it was kind of worth it. I took a wonderful cold swim in the lake before hiking back down and driving back to our desert camp in the Inyo Mountains. The Sierra Nevada will always be my first love in the States, a place I'll always return to! 🏔❤️ #Sierranevada #easternsierra #secondlake #templecrag #bigpinecreek #bigpinecreeknorthforktrail #homeawayfromhome

Swipe to see what happened past July... I haven't been very active on Instagram in the past 8 months, so before I start sharing about our upcoming adventure I got some catching up to do. Like about when in July, during our annual Yosemite visit, we watched this beautiful sunset on Half Dome and Dan asked me a question. What else could I answer but 'YES'? 😄 He had a white golden ring with a small opal made for me and he had been carrying it around in his backpack for almost a month before we finally made it to one of our favorite spots in the Valley.💍 Here's to a thousand more adventures with my best friend! ❤️ #ahwahnee #yosemite #halfdome #Isaidyes #engagement #couldntbehappier #yosemitevalley #love

Today is my 2nd hippaversary, as we hip-patients call it. 2 years ago I woke up in the ICU, with too much pain to bear. The morphine and pain meds knocked me out for several days. It took me so long to recover from this surgery; to be honest I still am recovering and I probably will be for the rest of my life. It's been a tough few years, but it's also been quite amazing. Learning to walk again after 3 months of laying down (which you can see in the first video) is a humbling experience. And after four or five months I was able to take a few steps on the stairs (second video). There are things I can no longer do, like running, jumping, sitting on a normal chair, going on a day trip or hiking marathon days, but I found a way around these things and my life is pretty damn awesome. It's different yes but I'm still living my dream. 8 months after surgery I took my first very careful hiking steps back on the PCT in Oregon and Northern California, 7 months later I went on a backcountry ski tour through Lapland, and there is new adventure in the making right now. Having my hip cut to pieces and reconstructed has made me a different person, there definitely is a before and an after, but the core of who I am stays the same. I'm just more aware of how vulnerable yet also of how incredibly strong we humans are, I'm more grateful for this miracle of how the body works and its healing powers, I'm softer now and thankful for small everyday life things... And I can't wait for the next adventure to begin... As always: Onward! #hipdysplasia #periacetabularosteotomy #paowarrior #ganzosteotomy #hüftdysplasie #paosurgery

Subaru Germany published an article of our Sarek winter expedition in their Subaru Drive Magazine. They picked one of my favorite pictures to be the title picture. It was taken on our second last day and I like how it shows how gray and dark the day was, but I was so happy and maybe also a bit proud about this adventure and the fact that I almost made it back to Kvikkjokk. I like the printed version better than the online version, but still if you'd like to have a look (the article is in German but the pictures are...well... universal), just follow the link in my bio. #sareknationalpark #kungsleden #sarekskiexpedition #visitlapland #sapmi #visitsweden #sarek #fjällskidor #takelessdomore #paowarrior @subaru_europe

Having 3 weeks off our plan was to visit my brother in Sardinia, where he runs a climbers hostel, but since it's gonna start raining all over Europe and I haven't felt too well lately, we've decided to just stay at home and enjoy the beauty right in front of our doorstep. #lahn #holidayathome #fallcolors #packrafting #beautifulgermany

Yesterday my favorite being in the world died and I am absolutely heartbroken. To many Phoebe might just be another cat but to me she was my companion for the past 7 years; always by my side in good times and in bad. When I came home from hospital she immediately came to lay next to me and didn't leave my side. When I couldn't move my body she would come sit on my chest and calm me down with her purring, when I had to do PT exercises and had to relearn how to walk she was right there. She was our family to come home to, the one running out the door of our little cabin to come greet us, she really meant the world to us. We will love you forever Phoebe ❤️ #bestfriend #phoebe

New Catmobile! New freedom! 😁🚲 Due to complications with my sit bones and calification of my hamstring tendons I can no longer sit on a normal bike. I've tried all kinds of saddles but unfortunately the idea of a saddle is that you sit on your sit bones, which I can't. Thank god for recumbent bikes! Hopefully I'll be able to regrow some muscles and one day return to some decent hiking... Happy Cat! 😸 #hpvelotechnik #streetmachinegte #recumbentbike #findingways #sittingdisability #paowarrior #notgivingup #catpower

I could use a pct sunset like this tonight... Yesterday evening I paid an unplanned visit to the ER. While doing what I always do (living in the woods) I had a small but real painful accident. I was bending forward to go underneath some branches and while I got up a branch found its way into my ear canal and poked me badly. Because of the intense pain it caused and the fact I was bleeding quite badly out of my ear I immediately knew it was nothing to joke with. Luckily Dan was at home so he took me to the ER. Thank god my ear drum wasn't perforated but I now have a nasty bleeding wound in my ear canal that'll take quite a while to heal. It's scary how fast small accidents like this can happen... I was in stress and not paying enough attention and bammm a tree got me right back into the moment... Not saying thank you for this one though... 😳 But I'll be more aware in the future... lesson learned. #pct #pacificcresttrail #mountshasta #payattentionorbleed #whatareyousayingIcanthearyou

Today is my 5th second birthday. At least that's what it feels like and how I celebrate it. Five years ago on day 2 of my solo-hike along the John Muir Trail I got trapped in my tent for 13 or 14 hours. Me: inside in my tent, right outside next to me: mountain lion. 🐱 She came early evening and stayed with me well into the morning of the next day. It became the scariest and yet also one of the most transforming nights of my life. That night created a "before" and an "after" and my life has never been the same. I live so much fuller, with such deep gratitude and the awareness that things can happen anytime. Maybe I never was in real danger, but it sure felt like dying psychologically, like a rite of passage and initiation. After getting help from 2 hikers from Seattle, I took two days of rest and then decided to hike on. Raw and like a new born I discovered the beauty of the Sierra and about 23 days later I summited Mt. Whitney. Mountain lion accompanies me now wherever I go. Some of her spirit lives inside of me and I am forever grateful for this incredible encounter five years ago. If you wanna read the full story: there's a link somewhere on my blog 😉 #jmt #johnmuirtrail #paiuteterritory #evolutionlake #pct #initiation #riteofpassage #cougarencounter #sierranevada #notsomuchlightweightbackpackingbackthen #thestoryofmyname #catpower #sierra

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