PCT day 87 - mile 1954 to mile 1984

A long but strategically important day, I will have to make an interesting decision tomorrow but none of the options seem to be particularly convincing.

Two thirds of the trail was covered in snow today, Oregon had some late spring snowfall this year and the levels are 33% above average, but still how the heck is there so much of it in here! Luckily it wasn't any 'sketchy' snow, just the regular slushy, fairly even fields of white powder. Also the scenery was quite beautiful so it made you forget about it every now and then and to seal the deal it was a mosquito free day!

When the path wasn't covered in snow it was lava rock instead, we also walked briefly through a semi closed area full of obsidian, which was like stepping on a shattered glass. Landscape was one of the Oregon's finest so far, with many sharp peaks on the horizon, lakes and meadows with streams cutting right through them, we could not ask for much more scenic day.

As I mentioned before, tomorrow I will have to make a decision. The one and only this year fire closure is coming and it is illegal to hike through it, it's only 20 miles long but the trail is closed to all hikers so everyone need to find their way around it. Except many thru hikers decided to go through it anyway and apparently they succeeded. There's a trail angel that offers rides around the closure for 50$ and I booked him for Friday morning, but on the other hand the completionist in me wants to walk that stretch as it looks like it will be the only part of the entire PCT I will miss out on. Then again it's just a burned area so there's probably nothing much interesting there and if I get caught I could face a fine of up to 5000$. So it's basically a mix of all those pros and cons, I have not made my final decision yet but I'm leaning towards taking the ride around the closure at the moment, just play it safe for this last push towards the finish line.

On that note, I will complete 2000 miles of the path tomorrow, that's huge! Holy moly when did that happened. 

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