What follows is the actual journal entries that we record as we make our way north from the Mexican Border. They are delivered to you uncut. Any misspelled werds or bad grammar, it ain’t the fault of any of our grade school teachers. Keep in mind that we could be recording these notes for posterity right in the middle of a snowstorm, windstorm, heat stroke, or mosquito cloud that rivals a Denver smog.

This page is updated as Jason mails his voice recordings back to us to be keyed in.

Early October Jason The final entry...
September 18 Jason Less than 10 miles to go: THIS IS IT!!!!!...
September 16 Jason Our last resupply has come and gone: Less than 80 miles to go...
September 12 Jason Approaching the last resupply point on the entire trail...
September 8 Jason Lara & J get a taste of city life in Seattle...
September 6 Jason A scare from home makes for a very fast hiking day...
September 1 Jason Heading north to White Pass after saying farewell to Koogliak...
August 31 Jason A rare Koogliak sighting in Southern Washington...
August 29 Jason J heads out on the trail solo...
August 23 Jason Will there be a ton of snow in Washington????...
August 22 Jason Mark says goodbye after an unfortunate injury...
August 20 Jason Chet heads home...
August 15 Jason Chet learns to hitchhike like a pro...
August 13 Jason Crater Lake...
August 12 Jason Trek into Crater Lake...
August 6 Chet Melvin Chet hikes with Lara & J on the trail...an OUTSIDER'S perspective...
August 4 Jason Goodbye California, Hello Oregon...
July 28 Jason More "Trail Magic"; Bears, Beers, and Blazes...
July 25 Jason J and Lara, soon to be on the Oregon Trail...
July 25 Lara I actually tried to pay a grocery bill with my compass the other day...
July 23 Jason Paradise is even sweeter when you stumble into it by accident...
July 16 Jason Crossing my fingers for a healing shin splint...
July 15 Jason We are halfway through....YAHOOOOO!!!!
July 14 Jason Warm fuzzies in Belden Town...
July 10 Jason We have mentally "shifted gears" since the Sierra Nevadas...
July 8 Jason Clouds with silver linings...
July 7 Lara! No, she wasn't traded for a jug of water and some moleskin...Inside the mind of Lara Street!
July 5 Jason Jason's Continuing Casino Saga; the Hike from Echo Lake to Sierra City
July 5 Jason Spice and the Bear; High Rolling at Lake Tahoe...
July 4 Jason Harley-Davidson convention and so on...The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry...
June 28 Jason 152 mile leg from Touloume to Lake Tahoe...
June 27 Jason Tulley Hole, Red's Meadow Resort...
June 25 Jason Vermillion Valley and Yosemite...
June 24 Jason Food shortage...
June 23 Jason Pinchot Pass and Palisade Lake...
June 22 part2 Lara! A successful Mt. Whitney summit attempt -- Finally some good news
June 22 Jason Events around Mt. Whitney face-to-face with the High Sierras...
June 21 Jason The sudden death of a close friend and fellow hiker...
June 1 Jason It took a homemade stretcher and 7 miles of hiking in the wrong direction, but it had a happy ending....
May 29 Jason 700 miles!!!
May 25 Jason PB&J's and the great wet surprise...
May 24 Jason J gets sick and experiences a tortuous day of hiking...
May 22 Jason The U. S. Postal Service failed us miserably...
May 20--note Jason A FEW MORE REMARKS ABOUT JACK FAIR...
May 20 Jason Major rattlesnake encounter...
May 18 Jason A much needed oasis...
May 13 Jason Feeling good, tending blisters and warding-off snakes...
May 12 Jason Lessons learned...
May 11 Jason The summits of Baden-Powell...
May 10 Jason Draggin' butt, trekin' on...
May 8 Jason Heat, ticks, tick poetry...and a SCORPION!!...
May 6 Jason Trail karma and Jason's premonition...
May 2 Jason AMAZING, last night we were holed up at 8500 ft. in a snow dug campsite on Fuller Ridge in the San Jacinto wilderness.
April 30 Jason Idewyld, Fullers Ridge with Palm Springs in site...
April 29 Jason After we left Kamp Anza, it proved to be a very difficult day.
April 28 Jason Hiked about 16 miles. Headed toward a little place called Kamp Anza.
April 26 Jason We have come out of the San Felipe hills and walked about twenty miles in the meadowlands, into Warner Springs, our second mail drop.
April 24 Jason We have just come down out of the San Felipe hills and have just completed the first one hundred miles in six days.
April 23 Jason We are hiking as fast as we can to get to a water source which is nine miles away.
April 21 Jason Walking in the dusk, staring out at the Anza Burega desert floor.
April 19 Jason The first journal entry from the trail. (updated 5/15)
April 17 Jason A brief account of the last leg of the flight to San Diego.
March 13 Jason This is the first real entry into the official 1999 PCT Thru Hike Journal.