Just wanted to share that I got my permits to enter Canada on the PCT last night. So that’s good. Still waiting for the Long Distance Hiker permits from the PCTA. But it’s all good - I have time.

OK. I’ve done it again. And again. (And again).

Yesterday I got my Fast Find 220 device, rented from Small-World. It seems like a small-enough device, and I hope I will never need it.

There are currently three available options for getting good maps for the trail (that I considered/know of) - Halfmile’s, Postholer’s and Eric the Black’s. I guess all three of them would “work”, in that I will probably not get totally lost, but I really liked the “open source” feel of the Halfmile project, and I decided that I will use his maps and notes for my hike. I know that having a free digital copy of the maps is only half the work, since printing them all (~450 color pages) would still cost money. But it seems like a simpler and nicer option than ordering a map book from one of the other publishers.

During my short trip in the Carmel recently, I tried testing my improvised solar panel to see if it can charge my phone. It did not perform as expected. In retrospect I can say it was probably because we were mostly under trees, and in the shade. Not the optimal conditions to test a solar charger. But when I got back home that day, I felt as though it’s not going to work between us.