Wednesday, August 19, 2009

You're deceptive.

DAY ONE-OH-OH, August 17, 38.3 Miles
At mile 2145.9
Not sure that I actually walked that far, although it sure felt like it. All sorts of alternate routes, old/new PCT, detours, hiker/horse PCT and so on, alls I know is I'm 9.1 miles from Cascade Locks on the Eagle Creek Alternate. Mt Hood was incredible to walk around, massive gorges carved down it's sides by glaciers, unbelievably massive in fact. Indeed. The Ramona Falls alternate was very worth it. The falls themselves are second only to Crater Lake as far as completely amazingly beautiful things on the PCT go. Had a chat with two of last years thrus who gave me some good advice and good ideas, so my plans in Northern Washington may have been altered slightly. The walk along the creek from the falls was about the nicest piece of trail so far (official PCT or not). Much more up and down than the rest of Oregon has been, although nothing compares to the brutal shortcut I took down to the Eagle Creek Trail, it was, however, very much worth it. Crazy amount of little black flies around that are ridiculously easy to kill. Met Sage, perhaps the last in a very small group who are thru-hiking south this year.

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