Wednesday June 10
It didn't rain last night, so I got to pack up a dry tent. The plan for today was to hike about 15 miles. We have three days of food left and about 38 miles until we reach Northern Kennedy Meadows, our next resupply point. If we hike 15 today and 15 tomorrow, that will leave 8 miles on the last day to get to the highway and hitch to Kennedy Meadows Resort.
The skies were cloudy when we got on the trail. It looked like a typical cloudy day in Seattle.
We finished two climbs and two descents by ten. On our last descent we met a Korean man with the trail name "Thermometer". He speaks very little English. We helped him find the trail at a trail crossing and he followed us for over five miles. He carries what appears to be a very heavy pack. At one trail junction, he pointed to a PCT emblem posted on a tree and said, "Sign?" "Yes", I replied, "sign for the PCT." He repeated the word several times as he hiked up the trail.
We had to ford three different rivers today. It is almost expected now to have to ford a river after we descend into a valley. We have wet feet every day now.
During the morning, the slight drizzle that had started turned into a steady rain. Willy used his tent rain fly as a makeshift poncho.
Since we had hiked 17 miles today, we decided to make camp early. It is definitely interesting putting up a tent in the rain. I put everything in the tent and even rigged the tent "beak". My raincoat and rain pants are drippy-wet, along with my shoes, socks and hat.
I cooked my dinner while sitting in the tent. Hopefully the rain will end before morning. I have my "dry clothes" on, but it's very humid in the tent already with lots of droplets on the inside of the tent. It will be "fun" putting on wet clothes tomorrow morning!
We are camped near Dorothy Lake at PCT mile 997.2. The elevation here is 9,472 feet.
No comments:
Post a Comment