Day 10 – 15.8 Miles – July 18

Home: Mile 122.4

END: Mile 138.2

Total: 15.8 mi

Ascent: 4012 ‘

Descent: 4488 ′

I woke up around 6:20 am to a beautifully cold morning in the valley. I had a little of a quiet morning and started the day just after 7 am with my two hiking friends.

Now, this day, we knew that it was probably going to be the worst in the section. I had seen online, and we had all heard from many other hikers, that the miles surrounding Milk Creek were going to be hard. And that was what we had this morning.

The few miles in the valley were slow. Excessive extreme growth and many farms hindered our path while fighting not to slide downhill. Especially going down, it was imperative to observe our feet and move slowly, since a false movement could send us to fall. I fell once, and now I have an unpleasant cut in the knee (still here a week later).

After a few hours we finally left in the stream! They were just before 10 am, since we started doing it again, and outside the tortuous valley.

During the first mile or two while we headed, we were so rounded by what I met as salmon berries. The leaves of these plants are seen as «a butterfly with a hat» and have small raspberry looks that you can eat! We all ate some handfuls while we headed.

Once we finally left overgrowth, it was central stroke. Above and again and under so many trees. But, the terrain was mostly pleasant, otherwise, these little piñecas and soft earth that were easily put on our feet.

We arrive at Mica Lake (Mile 131.8), where we have lunch, around 12:15 pm. We got into the water a little, soak our feet and spend an hour and a half relaxing. We knew we wanted to make the day short, so it was good to do it.

Mica Lake

The morning had been quite sunny, but became cloudy at lunchtime and even sprayed a little while we left the Lake basin.

We pass through many fields of wild flowers and truly idyllic before reaching our camp at mile 138.2 Around 5:30 pm This was a small pleasant camp, we look good, and there are hardly any errors! In addition, as many of the camps have had in this area, it is a bathroom. (Also known as a wooden box on a hole in the floor) but it was clearly broken, probably pushed by a tree or storm.

The right view outside the door of my store

From here we made our plan to reach Stevens Pass on Monday and seemed a bit planning our next few days.

The most difficult section of the most difficult section (on WA, supposedly), done!

See you in the next!

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