I have been following Balls and Sunshine's PCT journal on trailjournals.com. Sunshine is an 11-year old girl hiking with her father, and she's been putting in 30-mile days without a whimper. What a trooper! They are just about to the California-Oregon border. I hope to be in Cascade Locks when they come through to help cheer her on as they cross into Washington!

I'm also, of course, following our own BrianLe's CDT journal! As I mentioned the other day (the thread is in the Trip Reports section, although it probably should be here), he's now traversing Yellowstone Park on his way south.

It appears that a lot more people than usual have dropped out because of the snow conditions on both trails. Except for New Mexico (in a state of drought with a lot of forest fires), there's no place in the West that isn't affected by the late melting snow!