PCT day 54 - mile 1091 to mile 1113

"At mile 1115 before 10pm a bear cut my bag after I tangled the cord up in branches. I'd read they knew how to find the cords and cut them down. I need 1.5ish days of food, if you can spare any please message.." Luna. [comment on Guthook].

I found the above comment today as I was checking available campsites for tonight, it has been posted.. yesterday. I just resupplied and I got a lot of good food in my bag and I would hate to lose it, since I'm camping 2 miles away from the incident, I took couple of precautions to minimize the risk. First of all I'm not staying in any official campsite but in a random spot I found in-between them. I ate and separated the wrappings of my opened/most scented food including Polish Kiełbasa, I also ate a huge dinner tonight (pictures and recipe to follow) just in case the worst happens. Good news is there's at least two hikers camping ahead of me closer to the area where the bear was last active, they don't have bear canisters or strings to hang their food (I asked) so perhaps their food will be an easier prey for the fierce calories devourer! But to be honest I just hope he had enough of them last night.

As for the day it was quite steady, nothing out of ordinary. Mad Ukulele drove Owen to the bus station (he's going back home for now) and me to the trail after a hearty and delicious breakfast - we had waffles, peanut butter, coffee, strawberries and bananas, porridge and apple sauce. Turns out that she and Old Goat are both vegetarians and not only she has been so her whole life but also were her parents. That's really impressive when you take into consideration that she is in her late sixties.

My stomach didn't fully recovered from yesterday and what's worse I picked up an out of date granola bar from a hiker box which after eating made me fart all day, hehe. The trail was quite easy with what I believe was the last pass on the trail called Dick's Pass, many innuendo comments praised it on Guthook and it was a giggle to read them.

There's still a lot of snow on the path but apparently we will see the end of it in about 70 miles. I can't wait, this will also mean that the trail won't be as saturated with water - today ended as usual with soaking wet feet, but hopefully not for long now!

And finally here it is, hikers gourmet recipe of the day: Knorr's Taco Rice packet, shredded corn tortillas (they are horrible for wraps so I use them in sauces), sliced Polish Kiełbasa Sausage, four cheese mash potato powder for thickening and sour dough boule. For dessert: half a Tony's Chocolonely (I love this brand) hazelnut chocolate. This is probably the biggest, most elaborate meal I had on trail so far and it was well good all things considered!

Now please mister bear have mercy and leave me alone tonight.

The dinner:

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