Welcome Back Captain Jack!!!

Hey there resident of Warner Springs. The reason it’s so lush is because it is in fact not a desert. We have deserts near us, but we’re more of highland.

Sunrise from Whitney always AMAZING!!!!!

As an avid PCT docu-viewer, I'm astonished these episodes have a fraction of the views of other 2022 Thru-hikers. One of the best narration and production pieces I've seen in the genre. I don't know if it is algorithms or what, but CJ, you've done a remarkable job capturing your experience and providing a pride-instilling work of art my friend. Great job adapting to the trail experience, you should be very proud of this life experience!

SO well done, Jack !!! Much enjoyed every episode ! SO reminded me of when I lived in a tent, out in the wild (and off the wild) for 2 months ... 45 years ago. I wasn't hiking ... just escaping and learning, and confirming. Cheers Man, you made it as well !!! Congrats all around !!! ... Uncle Jimmy ... (especially got a kick out of that Captain Jack clip in the first episode that we made at the office, back when I helped you make your first website ... way back when you were just a newly emerging online tot ! ;-) ) ... I still have copies of all the versions of that site and all the vids (and many others of you) in my archives. Hope that you are doing splendidly ... seems like you are !!!

Thank you very much for this series and everything you shared. Still processing my own 2023 pct truhike. Yes, with flipping;-)

I'm so glad to have found your videos. They are awesome, genuine, fun, and a treat to watch. I love your commentary. Your good nature and kindness shows through with how you talk about others. Thanks for sharing your story.

Great job Awesome video work. Thank you for sharing your journey your thoughts your feelings emotions, the most beautiful scenery happy days sad days and your most hilarious dancing skills! Wishing happy days happy trails and a wonderful life.

Best PCT trip i've seen so far. The detours just made it perfect. Had fun watching it. Thank you sir.

Jack, I absolutely loved your series. Thank you for sharing your experience and certainly a job well done on production, editing, narration/writing, etc. I can't wait to see how my experience unfolds this year!

Dude i thought I had seen every PCT video on youtube but I guess not! I'm starting April 25!! getting hypeeeee

Just finished the last episode. Loved the episodic videos of the PCT trail and was moved by your once in a lifetime experience. Your journey was thoughtfully captured & you did not miss anything. Thanks for sharing !

Good stuff, well told story! From Dos Equis 2020 PCT hiker, you brought back great memories 😎

Thanks Captain Jack, glad I found your page. Your quite a storyteller. Looking forward to your next adventure.

Thank you!!!

Very Poetic❤

@5:23 Chicken Spring Lake. I did the JMT NOBO (2018) and camped a CPL. Note: There is so much Human Scat around I actually dug up another person's cat hole while trying to use nature's bathroom here. You have been warned! Enjoy!

@5:11 Yup... I sleep in City Hall too this season (2023). There is no power in City Hall, but I was able to hang my Duplex up on the rafters and dry it over night.

@9:56 Finished....what? It's about the JOURNEY (...about getting there). Bittersweet.... it always is. (Long live Intruder Mouse!)

@10:25 Above the clouds.... WOW!😍💭

Great series, and terrific achievement, well done!

I agree. Your bigger than life experience is told so beautifully, and with such truth about your real feelings. It is a generous gift, this series. A mix of remarkable film surprises, music choices, and, of course, your words.. so nice. I love chuckling over the selfish ant being scolded for not pulling his weight. And minutes later, my eyes are full of water, as you sort out the big universal questions speaking to you. I feel the way you cherish your friendships, the heart you have for nature..And I don't want this to end. I will always think of you out there in nature, doing your dances, naming the creatures, taking us to the edge of scary ledges. All in a most original way. I want more!!! I want a whole film. Thank you for putting this out here for us to share.

We have watched a lot of PCT videos…yours is very unique and personal. We enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.

"To me, a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience. Hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there being perfectly perfectly silent. Like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin." Loved that sequence so badly. awesome stuff. The mountains always give me this mythological-spiritual sensation. I strongly remember the walk towards Mt Shasta for example. Seeing him for days if not weeks in the distance. perceiving him as a breathing entity, beyond a naturalistic ontology. and walking slowly towards him as if we are walking towards a sacred tample. A pilgrimage. Also holy shit that is some crazy fire footage. I was just a day ahead if i remember right. blazed through glacier peak to run away from this fire. then waited for salvation in Stehekin. I'm wandering for how long a continuous thru hike of the PCT will be feasible.

Jack, this is so beautiful. Your writing is impeccable and encapsulates so many feelings I could never put to words. Thank you for this series!

This is so beautiful. Teared up in places. Thank you for making this incredible labor of love, can't fathom how many hours went into this series. Phenomenal document of the trail.

Man this is the greatest reunion since led zeppelin's in 2007 I love the Sthekin (סטחיקן) take. extremely based. The PCT allowed us to travel in time in the USA. To see and understand different realities, different people Carl and his otherworldly Goat Chesse. a legend. The mysterious dude from the Post office. And Rachel. Oh Rachel. She's the real deal. (7:55) "Do y'all want me to go ahead.." hahah absolutely hilarious

"And just like that, it was over We had finished Finished what? Nothing was different It was just another day What did i think was going to happen?" Goddamnit. The arbitrariness, the meaninglessness. Your ability to capture these sensations, to present various layers and different aspects of the thru hiking experience is unmatchable. a real depction of one's journey. truly eye opening. "Things came into focus" (2:45) gave me some serious chills. The writing, the scenes, the music. What an incredible piece of art you have created. Congratulations Jack Until the next one ❤️😉

Absolutely beautiful conclusion to your journey. Like others here, I hope you continue to make videos, and if not, that is okay too. I think one of the lessons I learned from the PCT is that all things come to an end at some point, and that's okay. Godspeed Captain Jack.

Thank you for sharing this journey with us Jack; it's incredibly inspiring

Hypnotize by your own steps can I use that?

Best PCT YT Doc I've ever seen. Loved every minute Capt Jack! Please stay active here, we love your storytelling (even if it's not on trail)

Such a great Vid Captain Jack. I also Hiked in 2022, also paddled Ross Lake to the boarder and am also struggling to get back to life after the trail. We must have just missed you. Your vid helped me re connect with the younger, better version of myself I became on trail. Thanks for sharing some of the universal beautiful moments the PCT provides.

You have an art for videoing and narrating. Enjoyed

Loved to follow your story. Hope you'll find a way to fit nature into your everyday life. You can re-invent yourself at any time.

Thanks for sharing your adventure. You have a interesting story telling skillset. I hope you can continue to practice and further develop it.

- love seeing people's resupplies :) - Ghost and Moxie cameo!! - love y'all's determination to touch the border and also love that your alternate was all human-powered! hiking route (which looks beautiful!) to the lake and paddle to the border, hell yes.

Excellent as always.

I've read and reread Dharma Bums a number of times in my life, and you finishing in this style is just so cool. Thanks again for sharing. Are you a thru-boater now? Is that called aqua-blazing? So many questions, LOL!

These are so well made and I love this series

So Close Jack! Brimming with anticipation!!!

oh jack <333 so crazy how close you got to the fires!!!

My dude! Awesome vid, it's a trip to see this all and look back on things. Hope the rest of the trail was everything you wanted. PS you just had to sneak in that clip of me exposing myself in happy baby didn't you? lmao -Freedom

Your marmot narration had me laughing out loud 😂 Thank you!

Love the uncanny Dharma Bums revelations. Kerouac was also a fire lookout for a short spell up on Desolation Peak in the North Cascades :)) love it when great writers love all these mountain ranges we're still cherishing all these years later. Muir and Kerouac and Abbey and all the rest... - familiar faces again! awww miss all these folks - ackkkkk tent mouse attack!! felt really lucky not to have any invade my Duplex. tent-chewing lil bastards - great music selection and edits - faaackkk that fire footage is nuts. I had the heavy smoke after Stevens but didn't see anything like that, damn. Must have been crazy to have been caught up in an active evac when you just went for resupply and whatnot. Props on having the presence of mind to keep documenting! - ooh ya hiking in an N95, love to have that sweat pooling around my chin lol. Truly a heinous couple days - truly was glorious after the rain came, ahhhh - marmot television 😍

Loved this episode. "Are you guys dating?" 😂.

Thank you for sharing your journey Jack, I always get excited when I see you´ve uploaded! Watching your videos along with all the other great PCT documentaries available on this platform has given me an itch to do the same thing.. a desire to break with my urban habits and go on this massive undertaking, to at least for a while become part of nature instead of a spectator to it. I'm currently saving up and planning to do some shorter hikes here in Europe in the coming year to see if I'm up for it. Thank you for inspiring me and I can't wait to see how your journey continues!

Great job capturing all the feels of reaching Washington. When you can see the end, all of a sudden its all you can think about, and its both a blessing and a curse. And I was wondering if you might get a passerby during your dance breaks... lol, so good. I'm looking forward to seeing reactions to the fire closure at the border. I was following that last year and while the end is so bittersweet, not reaching it after all that time, it has to be a real mind-f***.

- deep existential musings in the Goat Rocks, o yes 👌👌👌 - so many people were at the Kracker Barrel that day! you, me, Brother Nature, Forerunner and Posty, and Catdog, who I don't know if I ever formally met and so never clocked that he's STILL wearing the hoodie 😂 YAS. - and so many more cameos of familiar faces through the rest of the video! - beautiful footy of beautiful Washington - CACKLING at how representative this capture of me is - complaining as usual lol

Awesome video! Hope the trail stays safe for you