{"id":4812,"date":"2015-03-19T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T21:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2015-09-26T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T20:45:16","slug":"awrs-dean-paschall-to-thru-hike-the-pct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2015\/03\/19\/awrs-dean-paschall-to-thru-hike-the-pct\/","title":{"rendered":"AWR’s Dean Paschall to Thru-Hike the PCT"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dean<\/a>

Dean on Mt. Meru, Tanzania (Kilimanjaro in background)<\/p><\/div>\n

Dean Paschall will be thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada starting April 15, 2015. He will attempt to complete the hike in a single season, walking an average of 20 miles a day, hopefully finishing in 5-6 months.<\/p>\n

The Pacific Crest Trail is 2650 miles long starting in Campo, California on the Mexico border and ending in Manning Park, Canada. About half the people who start the hike as a thru-hiker actually complete the trail. More people have stood on the summit of Mt. Everest than have completed the entire Pacific Crest Trail.<\/p>\n

Dean Paschall is 63 years old and has been an avid adventurer and outdoorsman for his entire adult life. Dean has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro<\/a> and Mt. Rainier, has hiked on Mt. Everest and Mt. McKinley, achieved the first hang glider flight off of Half Dome, and also loves to mountain bike, road bike, ski, and rock climb. He was a park ranger at Yosemite National Park, CA for 10 years; created and ran the outdoor program at the Community School in Sun Valley, ID for 10 years; was a Division Manager with the City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks for 13 years; and is a principal at Adventures Within Reach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so proud to have Dean tackle this amazing challenge,\u201d Robin Paschall of Adventures Within Reach said. \u201cWhile this hike is not \u2018within reach\u2019 for most people, it is inspirational to anyone who loves adventure and travel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hike will recorded on a regular basis on Dean\u2019s PCT blog: http:\/\/www.dean9r.com\/<\/a> . The blog will be a record of the gear he used, his schedule, and ongoing photographs and journal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in the Sierras, my first backpacking trip was in the Sierras, and my lifetime hero is John Muir. Thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail is a way to follow his footsteps in a trek through the \u2018Range of Light,\u2019\u201d Dean Paschall explained.<\/p>\n

Dean\u2019s hike is being sponsored by a number of local Denver-Boulder companies including Ultimate Direction<\/a>, Sea to Summit<\/a>, Solar Panel, and Adventures Within Reach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Ultimate<\/a>

Ultimate Direction Fastpack 30<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe are really happy Dean has chosen our Fastback 30 for this amazing adventure\u201d, said Buzz Burrell, Brand Manager of Ultimate Direction. \u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s very lightweight and comfortable, while providing plenty of on-the-go accessibility so Dean can easily reach everything he needs, which is important on such a long hike.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dean has been preparing for the hike for over two years including researching the right equipment to use and training for the physical challenge of such a long hike with great elevation gains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dean Paschall will be thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada starting April 15, 2015. He will attempt to complete the hike in a single season, walking an average of 20 miles a day, hopefully finishing in 5-6 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"AWR's Dean Paschall to #thruhike the #PCT starting April 15, 2015 @AWRadventures #bucketlist","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/meru_summit_dean092106_4.jpg?fit=3456%2C2304&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xxsg-1fC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5143,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions\/5143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}