I heard Brad may be in Montana helping Katie plant a crop of Dental Floss.
Nope, no Montana for me. Katie's on her way though. The house seems noticeably quieter, and probably not in a good way.
Tricia and I just got back from one of the colder backpacking trips I've done. Sonora Pass to Highway 4 with Dawsons for their 2020 inaugural PCT trip. The one we did here:
http://www.mudncrud.com/forums/index.php?topic=2088.0Although Tricia and I did this one in two days six years ago, we-all spent three. Partly because it was the first trip of the season and partly because of expected more difficult conditions (and we got them - lots of traveling over, and sometimes through, residual snow).
We woke up today to frozen water bottles. And then hiked in sun, cloudy conditions, snow flurries, and snow flurries while we were in the sun.
Meanwhile our spy in the Great Northwest tells us that it's rain there for a while and besides, he recently got stopped by snow while biking not so far from the PCT. So our first PCT trip of the year is likely two weeks off.