It's been a long day... But a good day. Sorta? It was a lucky day.
I didn't get much sleep the previous night because of all that had happened, and also because my feet got the pounding of their lives. Right at around 6 I ate some breakfast and pulled down camp, and then we were on our way to get out of there.
It took around 2.5 hours to cover 2 miles because we kept getting lost over the snow and also because the portion we could get over required some degree of scrambling. Once we got out of that, there were still some difficult portions, but we finally made it back to a regular part of trail.
At lunch, some day hikers stopped by and told us that the second half of the way to Olallie Lake was covered with snow. We knew we had to go to a side trail to get off the PCT, but being in the middle of nowhere, were kind of lost on how long it would take to get to a town. Well, we were SUPER lucky, and met up with this PCT cleanup party. One of the guys there, Marty, offered to drive us to the lake and even gave us beers! He really went out of his way to help us, and even showed me how to purify my water with just some bleach. So, so thankful. He really is a saint.
My feet look really bad right now... like blisters on top of blisters. I was dumb enough to walk through a stream without removing anything, so they became monster-like. Me and the hiker I'm with met up with some other hikers, but I'm so tired I have to pass out. Gonna take a zero here tomorrow, and hopefully my feet heal. If not, I guess I can stay another day.
Apparently from here to... Trout Lake, WA is free of snow (and also clear of fallen timber!), so I know at this point I might be going that far. There's no way at this point that I'm going to do any trail sections that have snow. Falling off a cliff is not in my life plans.
I didn't get much sleep the previous night because of all that had happened, and also because my feet got the pounding of their lives. Right at around 6 I ate some breakfast and pulled down camp, and then we were on our way to get out of there.
It took around 2.5 hours to cover 2 miles because we kept getting lost over the snow and also because the portion we could get over required some degree of scrambling. Once we got out of that, there were still some difficult portions, but we finally made it back to a regular part of trail.
At lunch, some day hikers stopped by and told us that the second half of the way to Olallie Lake was covered with snow. We knew we had to go to a side trail to get off the PCT, but being in the middle of nowhere, were kind of lost on how long it would take to get to a town. Well, we were SUPER lucky, and met up with this PCT cleanup party. One of the guys there, Marty, offered to drive us to the lake and even gave us beers! He really went out of his way to help us, and even showed me how to purify my water with just some bleach. So, so thankful. He really is a saint.
My feet look really bad right now... like blisters on top of blisters. I was dumb enough to walk through a stream without removing anything, so they became monster-like. Me and the hiker I'm with met up with some other hikers, but I'm so tired I have to pass out. Gonna take a zero here tomorrow, and hopefully my feet heal. If not, I guess I can stay another day.
Apparently from here to... Trout Lake, WA is free of snow (and also clear of fallen timber!), so I know at this point I might be going that far. There's no way at this point that I'm going to do any trail sections that have snow. Falling off a cliff is not in my life plans.
Miles 2043, 25 miles up. Olallie lake.
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