PCT day 111 - mile 2573 to mile 2598

I've woke up still a little bit hangover at 6:15 in the morning, the bus was leaving Stehekin at 8am which gave me enough time to have a hiker box breakfast, I've mixed too many things though and it came out disgusting, I still ate 3/4 of it.

Bus arrived on time but the driver said that he is fully booked, he can take us to the bakery two miles down the road though and potentially pick us up later, since we didn't have any better option we said yes, payed 5$ and hopped in. Everybody wanted to stop at the bakery anyway.

I had a cinnamon roll an apple pie and a coffee once we arrived, the roll was seriously one of the finest pieces of baking I ever had, it was divine. Apple pie was average though and the coffee quite bad, that cinnamon roll though, yummy!

After 20 minutes myself, Tank Top and Camp Host decided that we could actually try to catch a hitchhike to the trail head instead of waiting for the bus which would save us some time and money. We got it quite lucky, the family we've been sitting next to in the bakery offered us a ride and we got back on trail half an hour later.

The trail today was really pleasant, it was gently going uphill the entire day so we gained about 6000 feet but on the 25 mile stretch, which was like a walk in the park. Weather was also very good and it's meant to be sunny now for couple of days, which means we don't have to be concerned with it until the finish line. Myself and Camp Host had some stomach problems today and we worked out that it must have been a dry cured sausage we both ate a piece from the hiker box, haha.

I ended up walking with both Camp Host and Tank Top for the rest of the day and it looks like we will be getting to the Canadian border together which is a very nice touch for the end of the journey. I will just have to keep up with their speed for two days which shouldn't be that much of a problem.

I decided that I won't be making any final decisions of what to do with my time after the hike ends, I really want to savour those last three days (one extra day as we need to hike 30 miles back to Harts Pass from the Canadian border as there's literally nothing there) and then I'll have a day off, sit down and decide what will be the best way to proceed.

Great day, Camp Host found us a cool campsite on the cliff overlooking a beautiful mountain range.

State of art cinnamon roll:
hiker box inside of a bear box:
Camp Host:

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