I did it! I hit the point where hiking the Pacific Crest Trail feels like my normal day to day life. How does that happen? The morning sun on the snowy mountain tops still makes my spine shiver a bit, but a good rest of it feels like I’m doing my daily routine: waking up at 6am, assessing what belongings of mine are soaked. Am I soaked? No? Great! Yes? Well, what was I expecting sleeping by the creek? Pack up as much of my pack as possible without getting out of my quilt. Brushing my teeth and spitting into tree wells, eating my 500 calorie protein bar and heading off. I even have a meal prep system, of course. Now that my life is a bit more routine out here, I’ve found that I rely on my daily journals a whole lot more to remind me what I’ve been up to. I’m in Mammoth now, a mountain town that I know and love dearly! I hit my favorite coffee shop three times within a 30 hour stay (Stellar Brew, of course) and meandered around my favorite gear store (Mammoth Mountaineering Co., I l...