Pacific Crest Trail - Day 163 - Washington

Start: Mile 2150 - Cascade Locks
End: Mile 2161.5 - Backcountry campsite

Going by states as units, we’re 66.667% of the way done!

Going by miles as units, we’re 81% of the way done!

The Columbia River.

The current “Bridge of the Gods” traverses a channel that was formerly filled in by a massive landslide which created a land bridge across the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington.

One of the cooler PCT signs we’ve seen on trail. Weathered with a Pacific Northwest patina welcoming us to Washington.

Fuzzy trees straight out of Dr. Suess. Incredible.

This was a Pre-Depression Era railcar housing destroyed in a fire 90ish years ago. We used to invest in this pretty cool technology called trains that could take multiple people to popular destinations at the same time and didn‘t even require huge swaths of land dedicated to parking.

Somewhere through here we heard a bear breathing heavily in overgrown berry bushes. We assumed it was a bear because the only thing I’ve ever heard breathe that hard is an out of shape American, and there’s no way an out of shape American is hiking 3000 vertiCal feet in humid heat and eating berries to boot.

There wasn’t even a cover charge for this show.

While watching the incredible sunset above, I swiped at an itch on my leg thinking I was brushing away grass. Kristin informed me that I flung a Preying Mantis off my leg and pointed this beautiful little girl out. You can tell it’s a girl by the gleam in her eye that says “I just bit my lover’s head off.”