Not the greatest night. Perhaps the thought of rain at any moment. Perhaps because I had to turn around. Got up early and had breakfast and packed up the camp. It did not rain during the night but just as I was completing the packing up it did start to drizzle and it drizzled for about 6 hours. I covered the pack while hiking but did not feel the need to put on any rain gear. It was one of those annoying rains that is enough to get you wet over time but does not seem worthy of rain gear. Harts Pass is about 15 miles away and I’m pretty sure I will make it today. Not positive but pretty sure. Not sure enough to alert Martha and Lenora.
When I get back to the stream where I met Art on the way up, I paused to have something to eat and I wanted to take some pictures of the beautiful valley and the wild flowers around the stream. I remembered the view of the valley from the first crossing and wanted to get a picture of it.
PCT Mile 2638 to 2623. A look down a Pasayten wilderness Valley 
PCT Mile 2638 to 2623. Lewis’s monkeyflower 
PCT Mile 2638 to 2623. Wandering daisy 
PCT Mile 2638 to 2623. Garden valerian 
PCT Mile 2638 to 2623. Pink mountain-heather
Somewhere on the way back the flower below caught my eye. It seemed to be catching the rain and directing it to the middle of the cluster. The rain drop looked like a shinny bobble in the middle of the flower.
When I was 1.5 miles from Harts Pass and sure I would make it, I let Lenora and Martha know but also indicated I could stay the night. When I got to Harts Pass I did purchase a tent site but did not set up. Really not sure why because I knew at that time that Lenora and Martha were on their way to pick me up. It is a 3 hour drive up that wonderful winding dirt road. Actually the dirt road is the last 10 miles but takes an hour. I was just going to leave my tent space but as fate would have it, just at Lenora and Martha arrived, so did 2 young very dirty PCT through hikers. They asked me if I knew where they could get water and I told them about the stream about half mile away. Turns out I still had about 3 liters of water left and I gave them that for the night. I also told them they could have my tent space. They seemed happy. My tent space had a picnic table which for a PCT’er is basically just a nicer place to sit down :). So, God is good all the time.
I’ve done some of the south and some of the north of Washington. Next two weeks will be more the middle. From interstate 90 south to where I stopped at Trout Creek earlier in the month.
- Miles: 16.7
- Steps: 41460
- PCT Mile: 26223
- Elevation: 6189
- Location: https://w3w.co/insurer.downsize.imprint
God is good all the time ???