On July 20th 2019 my friend Paddy and I are catching a train from Seattle, WA to East Glacier, MT to start our thru hike of the Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT). The PNT starts from the Chief Mountain trailhead on the northeast corner of Glacier National Park and ends on Cape Alva, the most western point of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Roughly 1200 miles all in all. I’ve hooked up my Somewear to Twitter using a tiny little service I wrote.

These projects came about because I just wanted to try the Serverless framework. I had been told that it was basically ‘magic’ and made deploying simple services a dream. Couple that with AWS Lambda’s free tier and you end up with infrastructure that doesn’t cost anything while being extremely easy to spin up. Win win! Cheaper International Calls Code on Github. I want to be able to call home (the UK) from trail towns and their surrounding areas without it costing me extensively.

In late August 2017, three friends and I flew into Boise, Idaho from our respective cities to spend a week wandering around the Sawtooth Mountains. After consumption of much fried potato and a brief sleep, we set off in our rental car. Our plan was to head to Redfish Lodge and get our car shuttled to Pettit Lake (a service the lodge provides for $30). We’d then hop on the boat shuttle ($12 each) and head up to Baron Lakes for the first night.

In mid August 2016, after a few years of regularly scanning the internet for photos of the Wind River Range, two friends (Tim and Toby) and I boarded planes in our respective cities and met in Salt Lake City. We sampled the delights of the airport’s vicinity (a late night trip to Denny’s and a cheap hotel room) and then steered the world’s smallest ‘midsize’ SUV north east to the Big Sandy trailhead in the Wind River Range.

My first blog post ever. So surely(?) here begins my career of hiking, pointing my camera at things and blogging about it. What better way to embark upon this fairy tale life than with the Lost Coast Trail- a 25 mile hike down the remote shores of the Kings Range Conservation Area in Northern California. Most of the Californian coast is flanked by Highway 1, a road which is often an adventure in itself.