All photos and movies uploaded to Flickr as of November 11th, 2026!

All Pacific Crest Trail albums for 2026 are in this Flickr collection:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderingjim/collections/72157727360883240/

All movies will also be in this Flickr Album:

As the miles pass underfoot:

PCT 2026 Day 1 – March 28th, 2026

Getting Ready…

Go!

First time setting up my tent on the trail…

First sunset…

PCT 2026 Day 2 – Sunday, March 28th, 2026

Sunset near Lake Morena….

PCT 2026 Day 3 – Monday, March 30th, 2026

Kitchen Creek Falls…

PCT 2026 Day 4 – March 31st, 2026

Horny Toad…

Trail Caterpillars…

Evening clouds…

PCT 2026 Day 6 – April 2nd, 2026

Looking around the ridge:

What cold wind?

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 7 – April 3rd, 2026

Sunrise:

PCT 2026 Day 8 – April 4th, 2026

Hiking along the trail:

This is what it’s like hiking on the desert floor without a way to see much in the (seemingly) endless, flat, featureless terrain.

Road!

PCT 2026 Day 9 – April 5th, 2026

Stars:

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 10 – April 6th, 2026

Stars:

PCT 2026 Day 11 – April 7th, 2026

Sunrise:

Just a few bees:

PCT 2026 Day 12 – April 8th, 2026

First Rattlesnake!

PCT 2026 Day 14 – April 10th, 2026

Morning fog:

Zero Days in Idyllwild avoiding a HAIL storm in the mountains:

PCT 2026 Day 15 – April 14th, 2026

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 16 – April 15th, 2026

Plane Spotting:

PCT 2026 Day 17 – April 16th, 2026

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 18 – April 17th, 2026

Stream:

Hike to the Summit of San Jacinto Peak:

View from the Summit of San Jacinto Peak:

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 21 – April 21st, 2026

Windmill:

PCT 2026 Day 28 – April 26th, 2026

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 29 – May 1, 2026

Snake!

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 31 – May 3rd, 2026

SAR Helicopter at Deep Creek Hot Springs:

It’s a little windy approaching Cajon Pass:

Drifting Clouds:

PCT 2026 Day 34- May 7th, 2026

Sunrise:

PCT 2026 Day 35 – May 8th, 2026

Wrightwood Burn Recovery:

PCT 2026 Day 36 – May 10th, 2026

Hike to the top of Mount Baden Powell:

PCT 2026 Day 38 – May 12th, 2026

Hike to 400:

Stream:

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 39 – May 13th, 2026

Stars:

PCT 2026 Day 41 – May 15th, 2026

Train:

PCT 2026 Day 42 – May 16th, 2026

GORN!

PCT 2026 Day 43 – May 18th, 2026

Stars:

PCT 2026 Day 44 – May 19th, 2026

Ants!

PCT 2026 Day 46 – May 21st, 2026

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 47 – May 22nd, 2026

Sunrise:

Counting Windmills to Fall Asleep:

PCT 2026 Day 48 – May 23rd, 2026

Passed by a tumbleweed:

Endless LA Aquaduct Walk:

Last Light:

Water under my feet, but out of my reach:

PCT 2026 Day 49 – May 24th, 2026

Sunrise:

Desert Windmills:

PCT 2026 Day 51 – May 26th, 2026

Foggy Windmills:

PCT 2026 Day 53 – May 30th, 2026

Even more windmills:

PCT 2026 Day 55 – June 1st, 2026

Typical trail walks:

Windmills after dark:

PCT 2026 Day 57 – June 3rd, 2026

Sunrise:

PCT 2026 Day 58 – June 4th, 2026

Ridge Hike:

Major goal ahead:

PCT 2026 Day 59 – June 6th, 2026

Third Times the Charm!

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 60 – June 7th, 2026

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 61 – June 8th, 2026

Sunrise:

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 62 – June 9th, 2026

Out of the desert and into the river:

PCT 2026 Day 63 – June 12th, 2026

Kennedy Meadows South Stars:

PCT 2026 Day 64 – June 13th, 2026

Kern River:

PCT 2026 Day 65 – June 14th, 2026

Sunset over Owens Valley:

PCT 2026 Day 66 – June 15th, 2026

Sunrise over Owens Valley:

Sunset over Little Chicken Lake:

PCT 2026 Day 69 – June 19th, 2026

Sunset over Mount Whitney:

Stars over Mount Whitney:

PCT 2026 Day 70 – June 20th, 2026

First Light Behind Mount Whitney:

Cascades:

PCT 2026 Day 71 – June 21st, 2026

Glissading Down from Forester Pass:

Cascades:

Sunset from Lone Pine:

PCT 2026 Day 72 – June 23rd, 2026

Sunrise from Lone Pine:

PCT 2026 Day 73 – June 24th, 2026

How many bounces are too many?

PCT 2026 Day 74 – June 25th, 2026

Woods Creek:

PCT 2026 Day 75 – June 26th, 2026

Lower Palisades Lake:

PCT 2026 Day 76 – June 27th, 2026

Lower Palisades Lake:

PCT 2026 Day 77 – June 28th, 2026

PCT 2026 Day 78 – June 29th, 2026

Evolution Creek:

PCT 2026 Day 79 – June 30th, 2026

Marie Lakes:

PCT 2026 Day 82 – July 2nd, 2026

Cascades:

Virginia Lake:

PCT 2026 Day 82 – July 3rd, 2026

PCT 2026 Day 84 – July 8th, 2026

Donahue Pass:

PCT 2026 Day 85 – July 9th, 2026

Lyell Canyon:

PCT 2026 Day 86 – July 10th, 2026

Tuolumne River:

Tuolumne Falls:

White Cascades:

PCT 2026 Day 87 – July 11th, 2026

Smedberg Lake Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 88 – July 12th, 2026

Smedberg Lake Morning Clouds:

PCT 2026 Day 90 – July 14th, 2026

1000 what?

PCT 2026 Day 92 – July 17th, 2026

Sunset:

Stars:

PCT 2026 Day 94 – July 19th, 2026

Upper Kinney Lake:

PCT 2026 Day 95 – July 20th, 2026

Upper Kinney Lake:

Sharing the trail with a deer:

Sunset near Blue Lakes:

PCT 2026 Day 96 – July 21st, 2026

Sunrise near Blue Lakes:

PCT 2026 Day 98 – July 25th, 2026

Lake Aloha:

PCT 2026 Day 99 – July 26th, 2026

Lake Aloha:

PCT 2026 Day 100 – July 27th, 2026

Deer:

Sunset over Lake Tahoe from Near Barker Pass:

PCT 2026 Day 101 – July 28th, 2026

Stars over Lake Tahoe from Near Barker Pass:

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 102 – July 29th, 2026

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 103 – July 30th, 2026

How to cross a busy freeway:

PCT 2026 Day 105 – August 2nd, 2026

PCT 2026 Day 107 – August 4th, 2026

PCT 2026 Day 108 – August 5th, 2026

Stars:

Sunrise:

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 109 – August 6th, 2026

Windy crest:

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 110 – August 7th, 2026

Sunshine:

PCT 2026 Day 111 – August 8th, 2026

Feather River:

PCT 2026 Day 112 – August 10th, 2026

PCT 2026 Day 113 – August 11th, 2026

Stars:

Sunrise:

Following Bear Tracks:

PCT 2026 Day 114 – August 12th, 2026

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 115 – August 13th, 2026

Stars:

Sunrise:

PCT 2026 Day 116 – August 14th, 2026

Deer:

End of the Sierra Nevada:

PCT 2026 Day 117 – August 15th, 2026

Deer doing a bad job of hiding from the hunters:

Sun hides better:

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 118 – August 16th, 2026

Halfway there!

PCT 2026 Day 119 – August 21st, 2026

Ramen:

Streams along the way:

PCT 2026 Day 120 – August 22nd, 2026

Boiling Springs Lake:

PCT 2026 Day 121 – August 23rd, 2026

PCT 2026 Day 122 – August 24th, 2026

Subway Cave:

Stars:

PCT 2026 Day 123 – August 25th, 2026

Sunset besides Mount Shasta:

PCT 2026 Day 124 – August 26th, 2026

Stars:

Rising from the darkness:

PCT 2026 Day 125 – August 28th, 2026

Burney Falls:

PCT 2026 Day 127 – August 30th, 2026

Stars:

Sunset besides Mount Shasta:

PCT 2026 Day 128 – August 31st, 2026

Mornings first light against Mount Shasta:

PCT 2026 Day 129 – September 1st, 2026

Waterfall:

Evening Clouds:

PCT 2026 Day 130 – September 2nd, 2026

1500:

PCT 2026 Day 131 – Saturday, September 5th, 2026

PCT 2026 Day 132 – September 6th, 2026

Mount Shasta Sunset:

Mount Shasta Sunrise before Aborting Back to Mount Shasta City:

PCT 2026 Day 133 – September 26th, 2026

Return to Mount Shasta:

PCT 2026 Day 134 – September 27th, 2026

Time Lapse of the Fiery Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 138 – October 1st, 2026

PCT 2026 Day 139 – October 2nd, 2026

Stars:

If only I could actually hike this fast:

Oops… forgot my camera:

Another sunset to relax to at the end of the day:

Sunset:

PCT 2026 Day 140 – October 3rd, 2026

Sunrise:

PCT 2026 Day 143 – October 6th, 2026

Klamath River near Seiad Valley

PCT 2026 Day 145 – October 8th, 2026

Stars:

Sunrise:

PCT 2026 Day 146 – October 9th, 2026

Oregon!!!!!

PCT 2026 Day 147 – October 10th, 2026

Igloo Tent:

Holy Christmas Tree: