// pct
Trail stats
The numbers behind 164 days on the Pacific Crest Trail, from the important to the ridiculous.
- trail length
- 4,265 km2,650 mi
- days on trail
- 164
- pairs of shoes
- 4
- states
- 3
- elevation gain
- 149,175 m489,418 ft
- elevation loss
- 148,868 m488,411 ft
- steps
- ≈5,700,000
- rattlesnakes
- 30+
- bears
- 7
- mountain lion
- 1
- deer
- ≈1,000+
- mountain goats
- 10+
- pika
- 1
- trout
- 18
- snow storms
- 2
- wildfires
- 5
- soda refills
- ∞
- climbs
- too boku
- weight loss
- 30 kg66 lb
- injuries
- 4
- injurknees
- 1
- life-changing moments
- enough
The whole trail, from Halfmile's GPS survey of the PCT (489,418 ft up).
The whole trail, from Halfmile's GPS survey of the PCT (488,411 ft down).
Not counted: about 4,265 km at roughly 75 cm a step.
Including 3 cubs and 2 mamas.
NorCal was full of deer, so this number is exaggerated.
My trail name was Refill: whenever we were in town, I was always on the free refills that America is famous for.
// Some of these are hard facts. The ones marked ≈ are honest guesstimates, because nothing was really being tracked that extensively.