PCT — Sierra section — report
2025-06-15 → 2025-08-03 · 50 days logged
Total distance
1,481.7 km
Elevation gain
31,154 m
Elevation loss
31,994 m
Average speed
3.99 km/h
Average day
29.6 km
Longest day
40.7 km
2025-07-25
Rest days
4
7 rainy days
Showers
18/50
36% of nights
- Tent41 · 82%
- Cowboy camping5 · 10%
- Hostel3 · 6%
- Hotel1 · 2%
- Easy34 · 68%
- Normal5 · 10%
- Difficult11 · 22%
- Warm shower4 · 8%
- Cold shower14 · 28%
- No shower32 · 64%
- Alone20 · 40%
- Pair12 · 24%
- Small group18 · 36%
- Sun42 · 84%
- Rain7 · 14%
- Snow / ice1 · 2%
What made this hike hard — and what made it good?
All comparisons are calculated from the logged days.
Average enjoyment (1–5) on days that met each condition vs days that did not.
The hardest days weren't the longest days.
The toughest-rated days averaged 680 m of climbing over 34.2 km, while the easiest-rated days averaged 485 m over 29.2 km.
You got faster.
Average moving speed went from 3.6 → 4.3 km/h.
Rain affected the experience.
Average enjoyment was 4.5 on dry days vs 2.7 on the 7 rainy days.
Company lifted the day.
Enjoyment averaged 4.5 on the 26 days with other people and 3.9 on the 20 days walked alone.
A shower carried into the next day.
After the 17 evenings with a shower, enjoyment averaged 4.3 — after evenings without one, 4.3.
Hot dinner, better morning.
After a hot meal, enjoyment averaged 4.4 and physical condition 3.9/5. After cold food: 3.9 and 4.0/5.
A roof made a difference.
Days after the 4 nights indoors averaged 4.8 enjoyment, versus 4.2 after nights outside.
Pain shortened the days.
On the 11 days with pain or blisters you walked 30.3 km and rated enjoyment 4.4; pain-free days were 32.8 km and 4.2.
Zero days paid off.
The day after a rest day averaged 31.8 km with condition 3.8/5, versus 32.2 km and 3.9/5 otherwise.
The strongest driver of a good day.
Dry day scored 4.54/5 enjoyment versus 2.71/5 for Rainy day — the biggest gap in your data.
The biggest day.
40.7 km on 2025-07-25, rated 3/5 overall.