Day 81 Ebbets pass – The Trek

21.2 miles

From Trail Camp (Mile 1035.2, UND 9182)
To follow the camp in Eagle Creek (Mile 1054.4, UND 8534)
Climb 3781
Descend 4420

Today there were many beautiful landscapes, but nothing that stood out as spectacular. I just walk and enjoyed all the things I saw. I stopped for lunch at the last great Creek before the three -mile escalation to Ebbets Pass. My first experience with Ebbets Pass was to make the tour of the Alps Alps bicycle ride in California (also known as The Markleeville Death Ride) around 1990. Then, it was the last of the passes and I really struggled to reach the top before the time limit (I think I reached about 3 minutes). The volunteers delivered newspaper leaves to things in our bicycle t -shirts for isolation on the Paseo Frío. I did not expect today’s trip about Ebbets to be so agitated or so cold.

Noble lake

Rocks and window in the rocks – under the noble lake

Twisted junic tree

Non -tight juniper

Creek where he had lunch

While walking along the path, I saw a lupine with many stems right on the edge of the path. It seemed that a stem had almost been shot down and swayed. While I was passing, it seemed to move a little more, so I stopped and looked at him. He moved! In a couple of jets, it seemed to be engulfed on the ground, disappearing from my point of view. Was this the work of the fairy of the forest? Or was it just a rodent pulling a tasty lupine in his hole?

Just around the top of Ebbets Pass, something similar happened with hikers instead of lupines. There was a sign published on Trail Magic 300 yards on a side path. Could this be the work of the fairy of the forest?
Almost as good as the Forest Fairy, turned out to be the honest magic to the trajectory of goodness provided by Lizard/Sean & Forever 50/Kathy of Sonoma, who are hikers of the section for a long time. When I arrived, there was already a hiker meeting. They introduced me to a dish of fruits and fries, they offered me a drink and asked me if I would like a hamburger.

While chatting in the magic of the path, a common theme emerged: why are we doing the PCT?
I was first to respond with something that I often heard among the hikers approximately my age: «I’m not sure that my body can do it in a couple of years. I want to do it while I can.»
Then, Pepper said that almost 40, she felt the same.
Then Dylan said he felt the same at 35.

I had not realized that this motivation was so common in such a wide range of ages.

So, when I left the magic of the path, my legs felt rigid and tired and, as if they couldn’t do this anymore. Fortunately, that feeling decreased when my legs loosen after a couple of hundreds of yards, and walking again at my normal pace. Then, my legs felt quite fresh until I got some miles later. I also ended up camping in a trail camp where there were five other tents. So not only did I feel alone, but I was physically not only for the first time in a long time.

Rocky ridges

Camping

A conversation issue that I have heard is that people regret having to wear the extra weight of the bear boats on the hard sides. They feel that it is almost always good to keep your food in your store with you. Where there is a problem with the bears that destroy the open tents to reach the food, they carry a container but blame the backgrounds less experienced by creating the situation in which the bears invade the tents. They say that the USacks are bad because a bear can chew it and squeeze food such as tightening the toothpaste of a tube.

I am certainly confused by this reasoning. If the bears never found food in tents, then it is unlikely to invade the tents that seek it. But this is exactly the behavior that these hikers believe is desirable. And if a USack is bad because a bear could get some food with a lot of effort, why would a tent good, where the bear would need to spend much less effort and put humans in danger while doing it? I would love to know what the difference is supposedly.

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