Day 110 Horray! I didn’t wake up in the middle of the night with my sleeping bag soaked from camping in the middle of a cloud. I did in fact sleep quite well aside from waking up and having to pee and taking way to long to get up and out in the rain to do so. Well, let’s continue talking about sleep so the start of this diary entry comes out quite weirdly and…
Day 109 I slept poorly last night due to the strong wind and gusts which made a lot of noise even though I had my earplugs and hat on. I guess that is what you get when you camp on top of an ancient Indian burial site. Just kidding. It was on top of the ruins of a haunted house built on top of an ancient Indian burial site next to Timberline lodge. I packed…
Day 108 Didn’t sleep well last night. Some hobbyist fishermen were camping nearby, played music, and judging by their language and loud exclamations also got quite drunk. This was until well after midnight. Not just hiker midnight also past the real midnight. Thinking about bears have caused more sleeping problems than this, though. With some dread I put on my dirty hiking clothes with sweat that hadn’t dried out over night. They soon did, though.…
Day 107 Another late start, but on the plus side the store next to the lake was open and had hot coffee, which went excellent with my pop tarts. It had been a quite warm night and the day quickly got very warm. Luckily, however, most of the day the trail was shaded by trees, and in fact was probably as soft and even as it had ever been. I did still sweat profusely and…
Day 106 Yesterday I was the last to get to camp and I was also the last to leave by quite a margin. No more sleep deprivation, please! I still felt tired, though, and because I was the last to leave I kind of felt, that I was behind despite the fact that this was just a new group of hikers. In fact, I didn’t really feel like hiking at all and I was going…
Day 105 As with the last couple of town stops, I was in a mad rush to make it in time for check out at eleven, but I made it with five minutes to spare. A couple of problems had popped up. One of my new shoes had started chafing me rather badly so I switched back and was still carrying two pair of shoes. Further, I had gotten a new shin wound by brushing…
Day 104 Today’s first agenda item was getting to Big Lake Youth Camp, a Seventh Day Evangelical camp that also offered services to PCT hikers including three meals a day. Of course it was next to a lake called Big Lake. Quite an uninspired name for the latter. He he. We wanted to get to the camp in time for the breakfast. I overestimated how long it would take to get going by half an…
Day 103 I had rarely been so late out of the bat as today, but I didn’t want to feel tired all day and I still had to write my diary/blog entry from yesterday, so it was past 8:30 when I took my first step on the trail today. The smoke had actually come back a bit today, though it wasn’t that thick. I could still see the outline of South Sister, the mountain I…
Day 102 It was another cold morning, which like the others recently served as a reminder that, for better or worse, this is eventually going to end. Both the summer heat and the Pacific Crest Trail when we get further north. Much is still left to be experienced, I hope. Irish and I had been discussing whether we would get condensation by camping near the lakes, I said we would, and unfortunately I was right.…
Day 101 Looking back, the support from trail angels and random strangers that we as PCT hikers already, for me here to n the first hundred days, have been blessed with on while hiking the trail has really taken me by surprise. Thank you all so much! I have sometimes wandered what is behind all this in addition to just good old fashioned kindness. Do we look very miserable and in need of help? He…