He'll be back — Farkas plots another return to Pacific Crest Trail yyc
He called it some of the toughest hiking he has ever done — which is saying something for Farkas. In the 180 km they did complete, they covered 25,000 feet of climbing, or about the height of Mount Everest from sea level.“We had to make the tough call to come home,” he said. “Going into it, we knew that the conditions would be brutal. … But it was fun. It was interesting. It was pretty much everything you’d expect.
Farkas took on the hike as a way to memorialize his grandmother, Elizabeth Ptycia, who died during the pandemic. He is also using it as a way to recover from a “tough loss” in the 2021 mayoral race — he finished second to Jyoti Gondek in the election. His grandmother was a former teacher and was passionate about children and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Calgary was a natural fit for an organization where he could greatly impact the local community.
The attempt, however, stopped when wildfires completely closed off the trail to hikers to a 250-km stretch of land in Oregon. He decided to use the hike this year to push the total money raised over the quarter-million-dollar mark.“When you wake up every single day and you point yourself north and you start walking, you think a lot about the destination but it’s also the journey,” he said. “I wanted to make sure that I set foot on every single inch of the trail after I set out to complete it. And while I got to do most of it last year, I really thought of it as unfinished business. It was my dream to complete it.
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