Today was just plain bad. Whatever snow issues I had to deal with yesterday became double the problem today. There were long stretches where I had to scramble along cliffs to get around snow. And when I couldn't get around them, I had to dig my feet into the side and hope that I didn't slip down. In short, it was SKETCHY AS FUCK.
To top it off, in the middle of the scramble both my Steripen and Nalgene were lost. There's no way I could go find them, so I need to buy new ones. Another hiker found me, and we spent hours trying to find our way around piles of snow to stay on trail. She doesn't have GPS, so without me she most certainly would have been lost. We should be at a lake right now, but instead we're in the middle of nowhere and not sure which direction the trail actually goes towards.
Yeah. In short, this day blows. If I find out that the snow is this bad after we get to Olallie Lake Resort, I'm going home to regroup. There's no way I'm putting myself through this again.
I read on the trail notes that Olallie doesn't accept drop packages? I don't know.
To top it off, in the middle of the scramble both my Steripen and Nalgene were lost. There's no way I could go find them, so I need to buy new ones. Another hiker found me, and we spent hours trying to find our way around piles of snow to stay on trail. She doesn't have GPS, so without me she most certainly would have been lost. We should be at a lake right now, but instead we're in the middle of nowhere and not sure which direction the trail actually goes towards.
Yeah. In short, this day blows. If I find out that the snow is this bad after we get to Olallie Lake Resort, I'm going home to regroup. There's no way I'm putting myself through this again.
I read on the trail notes that Olallie doesn't accept drop packages? I don't know.
Mile 2018, 13 miles hiked. 6053 feet.
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