Day 22 – Wolverine! – The walk

September 26 – Trail of the blue mountainsNe oregon

Social butterfly

After greeting my neighbors in Mottet, I went to the road. And today was going to be every way, which was great because I needed to get a good mileage. I was staying behind my goal.

Not long on the day I met 2 Walla Walla couples who went for a walk in the morning. They were camping a little way a little along the way. I told them what I was doing, and they were excited to listen to the BMT. They even invited me to breakfast, which was very tempted to accept, but they denied me.

A large group of hunters was camped by the Timothy Guard station. There is a path that falls to the Wenaha River and it was the original BMT route. But once you go down to the river, the path along the Wenaha is in such a bad condition that it was very discouraged in that way. Surely I wasn’t going to do that. However, it was interesting to know of the hunters that the path to the river is in good shape. I chatted with them for a while and they even gave me a Powerade, which I swallowed. Again, everyone is surprised to listen to the BMT.

All that chat didn’t help me put my miles! I told myself to stop being so talkative, which is probably not a word that most people would use to describe me.

I was noticing the level of lichen in the trees, an average snow depth indicator.

Wenaha Tucannon

A path not taken to the desert of Wenaha Tucannon.

The Wenaha Tucannon Wilderness is one of my favorites of all time. Today’s route was along the edge of the desert per miles, although on a forest road. It is a forest so beautiful that it definitely did not feel like a road walk. He felt like a wild walk.

This was so beautiful that it was barely described as road walk.

I even had a wolverine running through the road about 100 feet in front of me. Probably the only time in my life I’ll see a Wolverine Wild! I didn’t believe what I saw. Just to be sure, I asked later and confirmed that in fact there is Wolverine in the Wenaha Tucannon desert. And I also saw a fresh wolf print along the same path!

A more wolf Wolverine sighting is printed along the same path!

He began to cloud and cooled in the afternoon. I stopped for a cooked lunch in one of the two currents that would be crossing today, since it seemed to rain later in the day. Every time I stop and cook dinner for lunch, I tell myself that I should do it more frequently. And yet, I rarely do it.

Hunters

After lunch/dinner he began to rain. Some trucks passed me on the way. Today’s traffic had been very light, 10 vehicles all day. A truck stopped and Bowhunter’s guys inside asked me if I needed a trip to my car. I laughed and told them what I was doing, and they were very interested in the BMT.

Towards the dark, I approached the path that falls to the Wenaha river. I found a small spur road to the camp next to. Just when I was configuring me, the same arc hunters came. We said Hello and parked 100 yards along the spur road and began to drip. His bugling waved some bulls, one of which almost trampled through my site.

When they finished their search for the night (without success), they returned to the road and talked for a long time. Their names were Troy, Randy and Randy’s daughter, Summer. They asked me if I needed something and, of course, I said cold water, but hey, I only had their camelas with them, so that would not work. However, they had a refrigerator full of beer. I liked their priorities. We chat more about a beer when the moon appeared. When they left, they gave me a cecina package to overcome myself the next day.

The heat finally broke today.

Elevation tracker

Day 22: 2,826 ‘

Total: 59,715 ‘

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