40-43, Miles 658.2-746.4: Big Lake Youth Camp-> Cove Resort Refuge

August 40 – 17 – 13.6 miles

Mile 658.2 -> 671.7

The morning was calm as I woke up around 6:30 am and then lying me in my store for a while relaxing and then I sat on a trunk that appeared everything. Then I went to Emma’s store around 8 am a complete extension! Walking back to the store site later, we planned to leave at noon after lunch. I packed my store and then went up to the PCT center to hang out in the morning. I received more food from the hiker box, I bought some snacks from the small camps store and loaded my phone. The lunch was at 1 PM, so we headed there (along with Gizmo and outback that appeared!) And we had pizza, pasta and watermelon. This was really pleasant because there was a complete group of us together here, the most that had been so far, what I believe, and the most of the northern direction had seen so far! It’s great to meet people. However, the food started a little late, so we did not finish until 3 pm there were many warnings of the clums of the north that we passed and that were in Big Lake that there were many miles of lava rock while we headed south and that would slow down, so I worried a little while we continued after gathering with the PCT. During the first miles II I still had service, so I spoke on the phone with my family, which was really pleasant and comforting. We arrived at Lava Rock, and yes, it was a bit slower, but it was beautiful! Turtle and I were a little scared because he was getting quite late, but we had to get where we planned because there was no place to get water before and not excellent camping places. So we advance, reaching a road pass where there was magic of trails! Someone left a drink refrigerator and grabbed one and sat for a few minutes with others. Finally we arrive at our camp (.3 miles outside the path) in Lava Lake at 8:15 pm and joined an area with a lot of other hikers. I got as calm as possible in the dark, so happy that I was not raining, and I quickly moved away.

So great

More lava rock

A blue night

Day 41 – August 8 – 24.2 miles

Mile 671.7 -> 695.5

I woke up around 7:15 am to hikers camping by my side by packing and eating together at a picnic table. There was a lot of condensation in my store, it happens when you camp right next to a lake, but I packed it with the hope of being able to dry it at lunch or tonight. After using the toilet in boxes next to the camp turtle and I left after Natalie in the morning that was quickly becoming sunny. The morning was absolutely impressive! Thick piss with wild flowers and vast views of snow peaks, when we enter the desert of the three sisters. We stopped a little earlier than planned for lunch, for Obsidian Falls around 11:30 am, however, sitting in the shade, it was quickly cold, so we moved to the sun, which felt incredible to bed, although some bees decided to surround us, which was not surprising. We left an hour later, continuing in the easy rolling band beyond the three sisters and another small burning area. I came to camp at Sisters Mirror Lake around 5:30 pm, joining Turtle and Natalie along with another south also around our ages called Sunshine. Natalie had had some problems with her phone, and actually stopped being able to load, so she used my phone (with service, strange to seem) to try to solve it, and decided to walk along with us until at least she refuge Cove where she could fix it. Nothing not having a phone, for photos, listening to things and the map! Virtually no one has a paper map on the PCT, I think everyone uses the FARAUT application. I took a dinner that I grabbed the hiker box, someone’s dehydrated chicken paste, it was quite good! I wonder who left it there. Our site right next to the lake had some mosquitoes but nothing crazy, and I was pleasant and protected in the trees, with easy access to the lake where I washed my feet and put the water.

I love clouds (sometimes)

Me!

Shrooms!

Middle Sister (I think)

.5 Selfie 😜

Day 4 – August 19 – 25.5 miles

Mile 695.5 -> 721

I was awake at 5:30 am and left my store shortly after, trying to be a little faster because I have been lagging behind my hiking friends, and I was successful! We went at 6:40 am to the fog, but quickly heated. Almost immediately we pass the 700 mile score! Although there was not a marker, but we saw it on the map. Hurrah! Around 9 in the morning I walked, as normal, and felt a sting on the right ankle. I saw something fly, probably one of the wasps I had been seeing in recent days. Now, I am allergic to the bees, so I stopped for a minute to see how I felt. I have an Epipen, but I have not entered anaphylactic shock before, but I have a quite severe reaction with a lot of swelling and sometimes I get sick a few days later. However, I continued and did not feel any sign of shock or disease, just a rather painful sting. A mile more or less later I decided to stop and take a Benadryl, since it was quite painful and was already swollen. Then we continue to finish the morning and arrive at Lake Dumbbell to have lunch around 11 am, finding a good place in some rocks next to the shore. The other two swam, while soaking my feet/ankle and expected the swelling to fall a little. We took a good hour and a half, since I realized that taking a slightly longer break in the middle of the day really makes the afternoon easier, especially with my feet (and the turtle) with so much pain. We continued on the mostly shaded and fresh path in the afternoon and arrived at Lake Brahma to spend the night at 6 pm and chose a large place located just above the water. For dinner I had the ‘thanksgiving’ food of someone in a bag that seemed to puree of potatoes and salsa and some type of meat, it was quite good. Just before entering my store at night, a man spent looking for someone with whom he had been walking, we had not seen anyone and said it. Then, a woman came and camped in a place near us and she came to greet and we knew that she was also a section hiker to the south. Tomorrow we planned our day, we arrived at the shelter in the afternoon/night and found a place to camp on the resort to spend the night, and then went at 8 pm to a quiet and quiet night.

Long lunch @ dumbbell lake

A hiking couple of the very beautiful Nobo section took a photo here after we did the same for them

Lakes, lakes and more lakes

Sunset

Day 43 – August 20 – 25.4 miles

Mile 721 -> 746.4

I woke up at 5:30 am with condensation in my store and the feet box of my sleeping bag a little wet. I slowly got up and prepared and left an hour later with my hiking friends. There were a few miles of apocalyptic burns zone and we saw a group around north who told us that there was magic of trails ahead! So we are very happy, we accelerate and arrive at Lake Charlton around 9 in the morning, where there was a man installed with chairs and tables full of kitchen and food equipment. We spent almost an hour and a half there eating pancakes, drinking coffee (which was necessary because Benadryl was still drinking bees), filling our water bottles for a small dry stretch and chatting with some people. Sunshine was there (whom we met two nights ago), as well as the guy who talked to us last night in the camp. It turns out that she was looking for and had been walking together for a while. Unfortunately, we had to go at some point, so we did, continuing in the easy rolling band. We stopped for a late lunch around 1:15 pm, gathering some additional snacks of those two other hikers (always appreciated), and we went again an hour later. I stayed behind the other two in the afternoon, my feet only with a lot of pain of the blisters, and my ankle is still quite swollen and uncomfortable. But I reached them in Los Lagos de Rosary around 5 pm, where we stopped for a good half -hour rest in the shade to swim and filter a little more water during the last 3 miles. However, before starting again, I put my crocs instead of my path runners, hoping that it would be a little less painful during the last miles. It was especially downhill, and the crocs were a bit better than my shoes at the moment. Then, finally, we arrived at the parking lot on the road, where we sat down to rest and obtained some burritos of Natalie’s boyfriend who led to meet her there (thanks Talon!)! Then we drove a few miles to the complex and found a camp for the night (Trapper Creek Campground) where I configured my things before addressing the small store to try to get a cell service. There was Wifi, so I sat around for a moment, pushing me before he darkened, and then lying on me knowing that I didn’t have to get up early.

Seriously apocalyptic. And not even all tooth sticks, some trees burn until the stumps.

! However, I’m not sure why.

Land O’Lakes

I could never go without these!

So happy

Alternatives

To be honest, this is just for me to remember. Hyoy!

88 miles

~ 11,706 feet of ascent

~ 11,316 feet of descent

The first two days in this section through Lava Rock and the area of ​​the three sisters were absolutely impressive. Whoever says Oregon is boring, maybe it is true in some parts, but this definitely does not. However, my feet have had a lot of pain and makes every step a little more difficult, combined with the bite of bees and my reaction (not horrible but not cold), this section was hard in terms of pushing me mentally to move forward. However, the weather was quite good and having two cases of trail magic made those days a little easier. I am very grateful for the people who do our days. I am also very happy with my new backpack; I love the giant mesh pocket on the back, the pockets of the water bottle (no more stretched, where my bottles fall several times a day!), And it is good not to have to worry about opening. In addition, the color is very fun.

Thanks for reading and see you in the next section!

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Total: 767.2 miles

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