• 1000’s of individuals annually set off to hike from Mexico to Canada alongside the Pacific Crest Path, popularized by Cheryl Strayed’s e-book “Wild.”
• However most will not make it. That is as a result of mountaineering greater than 2,600 miles requires traversing deserts, mountain passes and snowstorms.
• More and more there is a new problem: Parts of the storied Pacific Crest Path maintain getting closed as a consequence of wildfires.
• The closures are elevating questions on whether or not future generations will be capable to full the epic journey in a single yr.

When Carolyn Burkhart walked from Mexico to Canada 46 years in the past, she pieced collectively her route alongside distant trails and logging roads, navigating with torn paper maps and a 50-pound pack bouncing on her again.

Her hike alongside the vaguely outlined Pacific Crest Path took six months, as she trekked via forests and deserts, throughout snowy mountain passes, out of contact for weeks at a time. Sometimes crossing paths with hikers making the identical epic journey, she’d examine notes about discovering their approach.