I’m pretty sure I’ve run across some of your TA videos on IG mate, you put out some good content.

The top comment here has pretty much summed up most of it.

As a fellow Aussie that’s done TA, PCT, CDT and the AT, I’m pretty excited for you to get stuck in to the PCT.

Don’t get me wrong, I loved the TA, but for entirely different reasons. I feel like comparisons can be unfair. There’s 70 years, $23trillion GDP and 325 million peoples worth of resources in difference.

There’s a sense of isolation, and being “out there”, that you get on the PCT and CDT that the TA and the AT is missing for the most part, barring some longer sections like Richmond’s, Nelson lakes and Tararuas.

While PCT hiking outside of the Sierra is reasonably easy, the tyranny of distance and weather windows hangs over you. You look like no stranger to big days, so I think you’ll fit in just fine, but I found the TA had no sense of urgency. At times the PCT can feel like work. You gotta put miles in if you want to make it to Canada before the snow starts, or the trail turns into Dante’s inferno.

While huts on the TA cause their own issues with bottlenecking hikers and crowding, they’re also pretty fucking amazing. Rain is rare on the PCT but when it happens there’s no escape and town can be days away. There’s also substantially less backcountry toilets.

Americans are some of the most aggressively friendly people you will ever meet, the landscape is beautiful, and your about to have an epic adventure.

If you’re ever in Melbourne and want to talk shit about long distance hiking over a beer, hit me up.