Wall on the Pacific Crest Trail Check out the feet on this guy at the end of the trail (pic at bottom of page). Janet and I met him briefly while hiking the trail in '95 and have written back and forth on occasion. He has just set a new record for completing all 2600 miles of the PCT in 83 days! That's 31 miles a day - good god almighty!

From a part of his journal, "Ray called around noon today from Hat Creek Resort, doing well, still lots of snow. After leaving Echo Lake Ray had three days worth of food and was headed in to a light snowstorm. He got stuck on Dick's Pass and froze his butt off that night. He ended up with four inches of snow on the tent and had to wear every stitch of clothing he had and still he spent the night shivering. He decided to skip his food resupply at Sierra City and had to stretch three days of food to five. With all the snow Ray found himself VERY lost on several occassions. With food running low he had to push on hard to Belden doing three 40+ mile days in a row. " Ray figures he consumes about 8000 calories a day. In a somewhat typical re-supply he might buy two entire boxes of Hershey's chocolate bars, 10 quarts of powdered milk, two jars of peanut butter, sardines, deviled ham, raisins, 10 milky way bars, 10 Clif bars, 20 granola bars, some Tiger bars, tang, oreo cookies, Wheat Thins and Cheezits. This would be for about three and a half days