{"id":973,"date":"2018-01-21T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/?page_id=973"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:42:43","slug":"wheres-michael-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decamp.org\/?p=973","title":{"rendered":"Where’s Michael 2018?"},"content":{"rendered":"

2018 is a year of transition, splitting time between the boat in Oxnard, California; Chris, Quinn, and Kate in Moore, Oklahoma; and travel.<\/p>\n

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In March, we had a chance to travel to New Zealand and spent 14 days touring the South island on motorcycles with Tandy and friends. Tandy had been there several times before and laid out a wonderful series of routes that took us in a lazy figure-8 around the island.<\/p>\n

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\nIt will be later this year (after the PCT, below) before I get a chance to process the pictures, but Tandy has written a blog post<\/a> that covers the highlights and has the best of all of our pictures.<\/p>\n

Another highlight is a hike of a couple sections of the Pacific Crest Trail<\/a>, a National Scenic Trail that winds from the Mexican border near Campo, CA<\/a> to the Canadian boarder near Manning Provincial Park, BC<\/a>.\u00a0 It covers approximately 2,650 miles through some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world, including the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains.\u00a0 A thru-hike of the PCT has been a dream of mine for many years, but I’ll have to settle for a few sections this year. I have a start permit for April 26 and will try to occasionally post an update.<\/p>\n

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While hiking, I’ll be carrying a SPOT GPS tracking device<\/a> which will upload an “I’m done for the day” message and GPS location each night.\u00a0 If you don’t see an update for a few days, don’t panic.\u00a0 It probably means the batteries are dead, I’m in a canyon, or I just forgot to press the “OK” button after a long day of hiking.<\/p>\n

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