FOLLOW KELLY KATE ON THE PCT
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebackcountrycook/
Website: https://thetrailspeaks.org/
Hike Start Date: April 10 (On the trail now!)
About Kelly Kate
From San Francisco, California, Kelly spent the last five years living in a tent in the backcountry with the California Conservation Corps’ Backcountry Trails Program. She works as a cook and supervisor for the CCC, most recently as a U.S. Forest Service-contracted backcountry cook for crews in Northern California. Her PCT thru-hike will include detours to volunteer with trail crews and outdoor nonprofits. She’ll also be interviewing people for a project called The Trail Speaks. “I’ve structured my whole hike around service and activism, and P3 is everything I could hope for in a collaborative project between public land’s supporters and users and the companies that outfit them. Respecting and protecting wilderness is a radical act in today’s world, and I desperately want to encourage people to care about what wild places we have left in this country and on this planet.”
UPDATES FROM THE TRAIL
April 17: Check out this great interview with Kelly Kate on the Cascade Hiker Podcast—she talks about how she got into working on trail crews, being a backcountry cook, the importance of packers from the Backcountry Horsemen, and her PCT hike this summer.