California was great and REALLY long, 1698 miles to be exact, but the Pacific Northwest is calling!
Totally AWESOME story! These are our friends, Metric and Sticks, we met on the Appalachian Trail in 2012. We hadn't talked to them about the PCT but knew they were hiking south this year. We had hoped to see them but thought that we had for sure passed each other like ships in the night... But we had a great surprise waiting when we came to a road crossing in Oregon where one can hitch to Fish Lake Resort to eat and resupply. We were planning to hike on and not stop. As we came to the road we could see a pickup truck picking up some hikers on the other side. Possum could see the silhouette of the guy in the passenger seat and thought to himself, " that looks like Metric but that can't be him.". As we stood there waiting for cars to pass, the little back window slid open and Sticks' BIG smile was beaming at us and as she was hollering our names we all just erupted in a "this isn't happening" yell! Sticks said, "you guys wanna eat lunch?" from the pickup window and we just vaulted into the back of the truck, forgetting to even ask the driver if it was ok. He didn't mind especially when he found out about this serendipitous road crossing! We sat at the resort and ate and caught up and ate for about two hours. It was such a good day for us! We really like these two and it did our souls well to see them again.
AA at Crater Lake. This place was so beautiful and spectacular! It is one of those places where you just stand there and say very little.
Amazingly this part of the trail consisted of a 27 mile waterless stretch..... unless of course repelling is in your bag of tricks.
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