Pacific Crest Trail - Day 136 - Oregon!
I’m pretty sure this is a picture from my pocket. I’m also pretty sure it’s one of the best photos I’ve taken in 1700 miles.
The horizontal version is even better.
I’d hang either. Both. You know, if I had a wall to hang art. Maybe we’ll print one out for the tent.
Post-fire forests can be beautiful. It’s just that it feels like we’ve traversed hundreds of miles too many of them to this point. It’s emotionally exhausting to walk through a burned forest. I’d highly recommend it.
Mr Emoji summed things up well. It’s one thing to walk through a burned forest, it’s another experience entirely when it becomes a harsh, steep, overgrown obstacle course.
After #blowdowntown (written on a PCT placard) We eventually found live forest and clear trail.
These clearings were seemingly soil related. We couldn’t figure them out - it wasn’t logging - trees just couldn’t seem to fill these patches in.
Looking back at all the peaks we traversed climbing out of Seiad Valley yesterday.
We met this beautiful cow above Alex Hole (A-Hole?) spring at lunch time. We both decided that we‘re no longer going to eat summer sausage on trail and aim for as vegetarian a diet as we can on trail. It’s hard to forego meat coming into town after 3-6 days of limited protein, but we’re adjusting.
Alex Hole ->
This sticker was placed a few miles before the Oregon border. Perfect.
Has anyone ever beat that game?
You shot 12,685 lbs of meat and can carry 50 lbs back to your wagon.
I think I know why they call them bullet points.
- Love
- Hope
- Lust
🔫
Kristin is 37. 1/10th of the age of this tree when someone chopped it down. I’ll leave it to you to guess whether the loggers who cut it down were older than the tree.
What do you need beyond a tiny cabin in a forest?
Sometimes you find a perfect place for that State of Jefferson sticker you cheekily bought in Seiad Valley.
Oregon! The land of milk and honey!
After 1700+ miles in California, we’re finally 1/3 of the way done! (if states are units)