Sorry that I have delayed so long in posting my last days on the trail but I have taken so long because these are my final posts for this year. Due to an accident I will be off the trail 2 days from today. It is easy to predict these things when you don’t write about them immediately 🙂

So I got a late start today because Lenora and I were enjoying the cabin we rented in Sierra City. It was a beautiful spot right next to the river and we had a deck where we could sit and enjoy nature and drink a little wine and also enjoy a very nice trail down by the river.

The PCT climbs right out of Sierra City to the Sierra Buttes. The climb is steady but not hard and is beautiful. The valley I was walking above however was filled with smoke from the fires and so I did not take any pictures. This section of the trail is just very pleasant to hike. Normally the trail is soft and after walking on so many rocks it is a pleasure to be able to walk normal without the worry of hitting a rock wrong and twisting an ankle and/or falling. I don’t get very many miles in when I get to a ridge with a nice place to camp. It is beautiful and so I stop for the night. However beautiful, this section of the trail is very dry. There are lakes that can be seen everywhere but the trail never goes very close of any of those lakes. At one point I crossed a dry stream but just below I could tell there was water. Just a small pool of water and it was a bit cloudy but I filled up with enough water for the evening and morning meals and water for the night. I purified the water but it was still way to cloudy I thought and so I took out some silk socks that I had not worn and used those to filter the water again to try and get the grit out. It worked pretty good and I had water that I was happy with for both cooking and drinking. Did not meet anyone on the trail today.