Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) southbound (SOBO) from Rainy Pass (Mile 61) to Stevens Pass (Mile 188)

[@rachelturner6698]

Really enjoying your updates and lessons learned. Thank you so much for sharing. Wishing you well on your onward hike and lots of encounters with kind & generous people!

[@lscanlon9908]

Please keep posting!

[@lynnedavidson7364]

Wow, thanks so much for sharing your experience of the trail this early in the SOBO season. You are one tenacious hiker!

[@esp3263]

Thanks for sharing! I will follow you on your way to Mexico!!! Greatings from a Couchpotato in Germany 😉

[@lscanlon9908]

I feel like I met you on the AT last year.

[@davidkuhns8389]

Wow. That whiteout was a hairy experience. Great report on conditions and description of you hike. I really look forward to your follow-on videos.

[@dianelifton2692]

Eric thank you for sharing your adventure. Be safe out there, and enjoy.

[@EricBackpacks]

Thanks Diane!!

[@sallysterner6449]

Some parts of the snow slopes were very steep, were you not concerned about avalanches? Thank you for this report, it lets future hikers see exactly what they are facing. Very well done.

[@EricBackpacks]

Hi Sally, the snow has consolidated such that avalanche risk is negligible.

[@Bayplaces]

Did you get reunited with your lost ice axe or buy another? I faced a lot of snow as an early season PCT NOBO in 2016. I'll be SOBO this year and am leaning towards bringing an ice axe based on your videos, but still undecided.

[@EricBackpacks]

I bought a new ice axe and am glad I did. I definitely needed it from Stehekin to Stevens Pass and even further south.

[@Bayplaces]

@@EricBackpacks Thanks for the update! I'll probably mail mine to Stehekin since it doesn't look necessary from the Terminus to Stehekin. I'll still keep an eye out for your lost ice axe when I start in a week.