Day 2 CCW: The lines of the fallen trees of the fallen trees!

As today’s walk was shorter, we chose to sleep a little and we left the camp at 8:00 am the day began with a steep descent through the forest to the North Mowich river. There was some confusion once we reached the river. The Farout application wanted us to continue straight, but the path deviated to the right. After following Faraout’s route and realizing that it was no longer in use and not a safe place to cross, we follow the path established to the right, which produced a good network through a bridge to the other side of the river. Once on the other side of the river, we continue very different rock wipes that led the main path in the Farout application. Pasy easy!

We entered the forest again, walking next to the South Mowich River, where we met an incredible group of three girls who gave us the beta version of what was going to come later, since they had been walking in a schedule. They notified us a lot of fallen trees that awaited us pleasantly in our next climb, some difficult paths that we would have to turn around and the conditions of the path in Panhandle Gap.

Beautiful forest along the South Mowich River

After some snacks and fill our water, we start the climb to the golden lakes. This is where we met the exploitation tree after the exploitation tree that seemed to never finish. It was actually quite impressive. Starting was not too complicated, but it required climbing and some minor kittens. Very soon after, my right knee began to hurt again, but this time in the uphillthat in my mind was crazy! I had never had knee pain in the uphill. This was not just a shot for my ego, but I worried that I can’t finish the path. I had dealt with IT band syndrome before in my left leg and swore that I did enough strength training and training exercises to avoid this, but the reality established in the sense that I did not do enough and for the rest of the walk I would have to discover how to make my knee hard.

Navigate the Conga line of fallen trees in the climbing camp to Golden Lakes

What is the secret password?

One of the many farms in the upload camp to Golden Lakes

At the top of the climb I found a rock and I made it in my right quad in the hope of releasing any knot. Instead, I just had a thigh full of unpleasant bruises. The pain was so insidious. I was going to go and go. I would feel great and then begin to limit. Instead of focusing on the walk itself, my mind was now worried about how I baby my knee so we could finish this thing! With all honesty, it hit me a lot because I never had problems in any of my training walks and I felt totally deceived. I consider myself a very strong hiker and, although this is a common problem for athletes, I felt shame. It was a f *** mind.

The water we transported from where we met our Pals from Gal to Golden Lakes was around 6.5 miles, so we expected to fill ourselves when we arrived. Unfortunately, the water quality was disgusting, so we chose to walk a little more. Our longer water transport had been around 7 miles, so totally feasible. The increase in the Golden Lakes consisted of exquisite alpine meadows, which finally led to a culminating point with murderous views of Mount Rainier.

Beautiful meadows at the upload of the Golden Lagos camp

Reaching the highest point of the rise in the Golden Lagos camp

Epic views of Mount Rainier at the top of the upload of the Golden Lagos camp | Just before our descent to the North Puyallup river camp

When we start our last descent to the North Puyallup camp, we find … surprise! … more fallen trees. Luckily for us, they were still worse than the last ones! (Sarcasm) These were even more impressive. The others that we could slowly sail with our packages and curse under our breath, but these beautiful babies made us completely take our packages, drag our packages through the earth under them and crawl. Debbie and I definitely join this experience.

Debbie remains positive after her backpack while climbing under a demolition tree in the descent to the North Puyallup camp

There is Debbie! Go and deal with the millionth explode while we descend to the North Puyallup camp

When we arrived at the camp around 3:30 pm, I really expected a very wide, superficial and moderately muddy stream to immerse myself in the knee. Well, we don’t always get what we want. The camp was located in the middle of a climb on the side of a mountain so that all our water sources were very small streams. At least we could play a good foot.

However, the path provided! We found a lot of shrubs of what seemed to salmon berries right next to the camp. We sat there for ten minutes just eating this berry buffet. After Grubbin ‘hard, we install the camp. There were only 3 places. All of them were flat and decent. We opted for site 1 because it was large enough for 2 tents and was closer to the currents. The earth was horrible and could barely put into play. The rest of the day was to eat and rest. Tomorrow we had a bigger day while we planned to enter Longmire.

View from a small opening near the North Puyallup river camp

Berry Buffet right next to our camp!

Our camp on site 1 next to the North Puyallup river

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