Legs and Borders

We woke up at 7am at George's house in North Bend, had a breakfast said our goodbyes to Fomo and got a lift back to Snoqualmie Pass, Zohan decided to have a zero day as he got a slight shin split. George dropped us off at Chevron gas station quarter mile from the trail, I had a coffee, everyone bought bits and bobs of resupply they have been missing and we went back on trail. It was ungodly hot today and walking on open ridges wasn't helping at all. I stayed well behind everyone else and didn't make good progress today but it was just enough, on top of the above there was a lot of altitude gaining so I'm happy with where I ended up today. At one point during the day we've been going on the ridge where military F16's were flying over a long valley and right on top of us Top Gun style, it was pretty impressive! You had to spot them beforehand because when you heard their sound the plane was already gone over the hill. I took a video of it, unfortunately the pilot ...

["Who let the Dogs out" song playing] Zohan: Amazing song guys, it was my bar mitzvah song! Lucky: Was it? Zohan: No, not really.. As it is the last day for Fomo on the trail we made it a bit special. I woke up at 3:30am and hiked 12 remaining miles to Snoqualmie Pass to be at the trail head when his friend George will arrive and pick us up and take us to his house in North Bend ten miles away. We arrived just as he was rolling into the parking lot, waited for Tank Top for a while as he was supposed to join us up but he wasn't replying to our messages so we left thinking something must have delayed him and that he will join us later , George took us to his home, we took a shower and put our laundry to wash, then he drove us to Safeway before heading to work. We ate at Taco Time before resupplying and getting an Uber back to his place. After few hours others started to arrive, Chewy, Tank Top and finally Zohan. We watched some random YouTube videos of people hiking PCT thi...

"Sometimes the pictures can really explain what you seeing" Zohan. Another long, hot day with scarce water sources. The team fell apart a little bit but with potential to reunite tomorrow in town for a special occasion. It was a fairly uneventful day, we walked through the forests green corridor of with occasional opening or ridge showing the view of Mt Shasta. One of the girls in our group called Sugar Mitts did not feel well so she decided to walk back and catch a hitchhike back to town. I was walking quite slowly, especially in the afternoon during the biggest heat, I'm not used to thirty plus mile days I prefer a steady mile pushing, early starts and reasonably early finishes. Tomorrow might be another long day though, it turned out it's Tank Tops birthday and he wants to celebrate it in town, problem being it's around 35 miles away - so everyone agreed to try and get there for the evening, I'll do my best but if it's as hot as it was today I might hav...

"Do you guys think I need to sleep with my filter tonight? No? So what if I'm lonely" Fomo. [We had to sleep with water filters inside our sleeping bags during high Sierra Nevada section because if they got frozen inside overnight the filtration system would get damaged.] One thing's for sure, sleeping in a massive hall with a bunch of hikers, listening to their crunchy sleeping pads, their farts, coughs and sleep talking does not provide a good night's sleep, especially when the temperature is way above the norm. Everybody started to wake up and slowly move around the building around 6am, I grabbed my peach lassi and three bananas I got yesterday in Grocery Outlet and went down for the first breakfast. I had a coffee, few sweets provided by the church and went out looking for more food around 7am. I found a food truck selling breakfast burritos outside Safeway, so I got the chorizo one and went back to the hall. At this point people started slowly leaving  back t...