More than 40 miles throughout the state of Washington

This morning I packed bright and early on my small tent site. Knowing that I had a long day ahead and a lot of climbing to do the first. Like yesterday, my day would begin with approximately 11 miles of continuous escalation. Although I knew it would be quite gradual and definitely nothing too crazy.

I set out to start and plan to keep my head down and climb to the top before stopping. It was very nice and fresh and spent time quickly early in the morning. As always I find that he does. Those are the fastest miles of the day, in my opinion. I went through some tents and slowly but surely went up to the top. Where I was rewarded with some beautiful views after having seen a lovely dawn this morning.

When I got to the top, I did not necessarily realize that it was the culminating point. There had been many «tops», but none of them was the way. I spent a couple of hikers, and then the path began to go down before I realized that it had definitely been the Tippy top. So I continued downhill for a while before arriving at the next camp. Where he planned to stop quickly and have a little breakfast.

Nothing compared to the incredible mountain views recently.

For the first time throughout the year, I really had breakfast in my store this morning! Normally, I am not a great breakfast person and I will simply eat things during the morning. But this morning I had an Asiago Bagel and a cream cheese, which was incredible. Then he ate another in this resting place too. Yesterday, when I left the city, I also packed a 16 -ounce can of Thai tea. And he ended up forgetting to drink it until night. At that time I already took it for so long that I realized that it would be a much more pleasant pleasure today than it would have been last night. And about 12 miles on a 40 -mile day, it was absolutely incredible.

I took this bad boy 50 miles!

After my nutritious pause, I continued. Waiting at least half of the day before stopping again. Eventually I would have to stop and get some water as well. But when I am doing such a big mileage for the day, it usually try to stop as possible. If you stop every 2–3 hours on a 40 -mile day, you will walk forever. Today I didn’t have to be as crazy between breaks as I do other times. I ended up breaking every 10 to 12 miles briefly to eat something. But ideally, I would have stopped slightly less frequent intervals, just to help spend time a little faster.

Some parts of the day felt a bit monotonous. But time definitely passed.

First thing in the afternoon, I began to see a group of hikers and hikers. The path ended up spending this great beautiful blue lake, which he remembered with love. This whole section is actually very memorable for me. When I previously tried to reach my mind to remember it, I really couldn’t. But now that I am standing here walking along the same path once again, everything returned quite vividly.

This beautiful mountain was looking out, greeting!

When I was here before sitting and enjoyed rest on a small island that got into the beautiful blue lake. Today, when I passed, there were some different people placed around the lake to spend the night. They must be making short trips because it is not very common to see people installed in the camp before 2 pm. And in reality, in the following miles, I went through numerous hikers who went south that they asked about the lake and their camp options. Therefore, it is clearly a very popular hiking destination.

I forgot how much I loved Washington!

I enjoyed all views and a relatively easy land. After my great ascent this morning, the rest of the day will be a little easier compared. Although I realized quite early today that the land was definitely slowing down to some extent. I didn’t feel that I was going to be particularly slow, but my watch was telling a different story. He was certainly not reaching 3 miles per hour for most of the day. Even ignoring the few times I sat for a short break.

Passing by this brilliant blue lake in the afternoon. It would have been an incredible place to camp at night.

Washington only has many sections with Talus and Loose Rock. And some more steep sections of climbing, although we have not yet arrived there. And that type of land only has a tendency to slow down. Not substantially, but definitely in a remarkable way. Especially when you spend 12 hours a day walking and taking note of your speed on time. It is something that I think and I am aware even when I am not thinking about it or trying to be aware of it.

Because the land slowed me a little, I tried to eat more while walking. Just to shorten my breaks a bit. I had received some Cheddar Parmesano cheese from Trader Joe’s, which I ate with delicious fig cookies on the fly. That was such a good snack. I have not been eating so much on the road today, probably due to heat. But it is definitely one of those snacks that always makes me feel so good later. Then I kept walking while the path intertwined me through an exuberant green forest, covered with mosses and lichens. It was a really beautiful place, especially when the sun began to get slowly.

The last little light filters through the pines.

The time of the year is quickly approaching where the days begin to shorten. Which is really a worse nightmare of hikers. But it is a constant characteristic of a southern limit through the walk. The farther you go, the shorter the days are. So, the more tired after the compilation of thousands of miles, the more night walk it should do. I am certainly not looking forward to that. I will appreciate these long periods of daylight while I have it.

He planned to walk until tonight to get the miles. And the path ended up going through a couple of roads before the end of the day. At one point it was close to a kind of designated camp when everything that could smell was the delicious aroma of cooked food. Butter and oils, and somewhat cooked on a stove or on a fire. He filled the air by hundreds of feet and was the most delicious smell. But I couldn’t see anything! I didn’t see any camp nearby and I didn’t think there was a path nearby. It was actually 2 miles below the next main road. At that time it was almost 8 pm and my brain was so confused. I never discovered why that area smelled so well.

I crossed this path just in time to capture the sun that crosses the trees.

I had less than an hour to pass at that point and continued to just after dusk. Then he found a good place to prepare to spend the night and get water. It ended up being more than 41 miles for the day, which was wonderful. And it meant that if I did 39–40 miles tomorrow, which could really make a relatively short day at White Pass. It means a 30 -mile day, but still. The idea of ​​getting into White Pass and being able to eat a lot of food, showers and possibly get a room in the Lodge next door, sounded fantastic.

A little blurred, but one day of more than 41 miles!

The place where he had actually camped had tons of other people there. I entered and put my tents just before the sun was put on. It was literally surrounded another 10 tents, which fortunately were not too together. So I didn’t feel very bad for my late arrival. Then he filled over the water and had dinner before calling him one night. Tomorrow morning I will only be 5 to 7 miles from the road where hikers can get hooked in Trout Lake. But I’m going to omit the refueling in Trout Lake and continue with White Pass. It would not really be worth going alone to get two days of refueling. In addition, there is not much to happen in Trout Lake. At least in White Pass, I could probably get a room too expensive for the night and be able to catch up with work and knock down some serious calories.

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