Pacific Crest Trail (NOBO) Part 8/10

Ted said:
Wait.

Who doesn't like black olives on their Pizza!!?? :)
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Haha good point!

It was my request, but I DO like olives on my pizza.

I had also went to the pizza place next door and bought 2 HUGE gourmet style slices. Different sauces and toppings and non traditional. They were GREAT! and so I knew that I would want just traditional cheese and pepperoni after I finished the complicated ones haha Sawyer and I ended up exchanging 1 slice though, so I still got olives :)
 
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Pizza is Nature's Most Perfect Food, pretty sure. I bet it tasted awesome. I still can't figure out how you guys didn't turn into waif-like twigs on the trail.
 
Yeah, it didn't print the way I meant it. I was asking "who" doesn't like black olives, not the royal "who", simply because from the pic obviously there was some division going on with that pie. I don't mean to offend any olive H8ers or anything :)
 
Ted said:
Yeah, it didn't print the way I meant it. I was asking "who" doesn't like black olives, not the royal "who", simply because from the pic obviously there was some division going on with that pie. I don't mean to offend any olive H8ers or anything :)
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No worries!
 
All this talk of pizza ... I had to order one. Thanks a lot!! (though I did bring it up.. Hm..)
 
Ted said:
Pizza is Nature's Most Perfect Food, pretty sure. I bet it tasted awesome. I still can't figure out how you guys didn't turn into waif-like twigs on the trail.
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I would definitely lose enough in between sections that by the last couple days into town, I felt weak. Then you get to town and eat the most you can! I would put on 3-6lbs which would keep me sustained for the first day or two of the next section. Then the remaining 2-8 days I just ran on fumes and stubbornness haha
 
Awesome scenery on this section! I probably need to make it up to Washington someday, but... if I'm gonna go that far it's only one more flight to Alaska hahaha!

I feel that someday I'm going to be that strange guy on the trail singing bizarre songs to people. Maybe it's not so far away, I just need to learn some songs...

Ted said:
Wait.

Who doesn't like black olives on their Pizza!!?? :)
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Black olives are disgusting to me! Green olives are tolerable but prefer none on my pizza.
 
b.stark said:
Awesome scenery on this section! I probably need to make it up to Washington someday, but... if I'm gonna go that far it's only one more flight to Alaska hahaha!

I feel that someday I'm going to be that strange guy on the trail singing bizarre songs to people. Maybe it's not so far away, I just need to learn some songs...


Black olives are disgusting to me! Green olives are tolerable but prefer none on my pizza.
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Granted I only hiked a few miles in Alaska and I am sure it is GORGEOUS, but Washington is too. You can't go wrong :)

Haha well I bet thru hikers will happily humor you by listening, so make sure to hit long distance trails.

Dang, you don't like olives either? I used to only like black, but now I LOVE them all. The stronger tasting, like kalamata, the better!
 
Miya said:
LOL did you really? Did you get it with olives?
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Yes really! No olives, no anchovies. I do like black olives OK on "supreme" style, with lots of other stuff, mushrooms and onions. Jalapenos are my new favorite, I think.
 
Ted said:
Yes really! No olives, no anchovies. I do like black olives OK on "supreme" style, with lots of other stuff, mushrooms and onions. Jalapenos are my new favorite, I think.
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I have been digging Jalapenos on pizza two!

If it is a place where I can pick my own, like a personal, I get pretty weird with my toppings though. Goat cheese is probably my FAVORITE thing on pizza, but blue cheese is up there too :)
 
Still loving this and reading along, and you just blazed through where I spent some time a few weeks ago, although many views were limited in places by smoke, so we had to adjust plans.
All those miles and those steep up/downs each day. Way to go! I can only imagine parts of how any of this would actually feel.

Olives of all types are good... I am going to have to go visit my pantry now since it is lunchtime.
 
Ugly said:
Still loving this and reading along, and you just blazed through where I spent some time a few weeks ago, although many views were limited in places by smoke, so we had to adjust plans.
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That is too bad about the smoke! My smokiest area was Oregon and Washington was just covered in fog, but I prefer the latter.

The monument did close last year too because of a lightning fire, luckily by the time I got there the area was open :)
 
I half expected to see you in that saddle. :D

It looks like one of the mountain goats has a collar?

Another great installment Miya! I'm moving on to part 9.
 
scatman said:
I half expected to see you in that saddle. :D

It looks like one of the mountain goats has a collar?

Another great installment Miya! I'm moving on to part 9.
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I definitely wanted to, but it was up really high and I also worried it would like disintegrate if I put my weight on it haha It looked pretty old as the tree had started to grow around it!

Yeah it did, I figured it was being tracked by the NP? but I never found out for sure.
 
My oldest kid (almost 14) and I refer to pepperoni and black olives as "celebration pizza" after we had that after we finished her first "real" backpacking trip when she was 6, still makes me smile :)

The WA stretch leading into White Pass area looks amazing and then south of Leavenworth is wow!
 
wsp_scott said:
My oldest kid (almost 14) and I refer to pepperoni and black olives as "celebration pizza" after we had that after we finished her first "real" backpacking trip when she was 6, still makes me smile :)

The WA stretch leading into White Pass area looks amazing and then south of Leavenworth is wow!
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Awwww celebration pizza?! Love it!

I would happily hike the entirety of Washington again, but yes, leaving Leavenworth was so vast and stunning! I highly recommend!
 
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