Date: 9/21/16 Miles: 7.8 Total Miles: 2577.2 With only a short nearo planned out of town this afternoon, there was plenty of time to enjoy Stehekin and its beauty. Sitting by the water’s edge and staring into the valley that leads back to the trail and the jagged peaks of the North Cascades, I thought…
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Stehekin
Date: 9/20/16 Miles: 19.5 Total Miles: 2569.4 The snow of yesterday evening and the cold that came with it lingered all through the night, with an occasional new dusting adding to the blanket of white that now clung to everything. By the small hours of the morning, however, the sky was filled with nothing but…
Mental Endurance
Date: 9/19/16 Miles: 23.6 Total Miles: 2549.9 The moon was bright and clear in its corner of the sky as it rose above the shoulder of the mountain we camped high upon last night, but it didn’t last–it too was soon swallowed by the clouds that cast a light but cold rain down on my…
Thank You Sunshine
Date: 9/18/16 Miles: 20.1 Total Miles: 2526.3 It was an exhausting night trying to keep things as dry as possible, and sleep came only in short spurts. The sweetest sound of the morning wasn’t even a sound at all but rather the absence of one: the absence of rain falling on the tent. It was…
The Rain Wins Again
Date: 9/17/16 Miles: 22.0 Total Miles: 2506.2 Well, that sucked. The fact that I never even turned my phone on, let alone used it to take a single picture, tells the story of the day about as well as I can. From the moment I began hiking to the moment I stopped, the rain was…
