Reaching Tahoe is a major benchmark along the trail, as the pair have now successfully come through the Sierra Nevada mountain range — a 390-mile section with snowy crossings and more than 60,000 feet of elevation gain.

Despite the attack of surly squirrels and detours around yellow-legged frogs, TDHS Grad Celia Peterson and Jensen Douillard have made it to mile 485 on the Pacific Crest Trail - a 2,650-mile jaunt from Mexico to Canada.

“I feel like I needed this to be pushing myself,” Peterson said on Thursday, April 24 from the town of Idyllwild, Calif, an unincorporated town of 3,000 with a labrador for a mayor near the San Jacinto Wilderness. “We’re hiking everyday, camping and packing, but it is cool how everything is so different everyday.”