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| A nice Mt. Ranier landscape |
The trail experience continues for me, and the miles to Canada get smaller and smaller everyday. I'm taking a break in Leavenworth WA, 190 miles from the border crossing at Steven's pass. There is just one more resupply stop in Stehekin WA, a very minimal mountain town (as most of the towns we walk through are).
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| Cascade locks, the end of Oregon and start of Washington! |
Everybody is excited, but a little sad at the same time. The thru hiker community and this lifestyle have become familiar and comfortable to us - almost to the point where being in town for a long time is a strange, sensory overloading experience. Getting back on trail feels like a haze is lifted, and clear thinking can start again.
I have a section of Northern California I intend to complete after reaching the northern terminus, but I know I will be saying goodbye to a lot of great people I've met along the way as we all scatter back to our homes to begin the next chapter of life.
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| Showing off the hiker calves - pic taken from another hiker :) |
This is going to be a short update... I've been fighting with memory overload on my current sim card, and making the next video is taking some time. Washington is absolutely beautiful, and the seasonal turn toward winter has made for some colder days on trail.
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| Frosty September morning |
Stay tuned, I'll definitely do my best to bring this blog saga to a satisfying ending. I did have a really cool moment on trail recently that I want to share. This book, Trail Life by Ray Jardine was the beginning of the PCT dream for me. I tell people that it was the PCT pictures from that book that made me want to hike it. He and his wife have done the PCT, AT, and CDT multiple times each I believe. Great book..
Check out the cover photo:
I must have dreamed over that picture for some good amount of time, because I had a strange sense of 'trail ja vu' when I got to a switchback between Snoqualmie and Steven's pass.
I took this photo:
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| This switchback looks familiar... |
Anyway, funny how things come full circle like that. Happy trails friends!
- Traveller
