PCT day 86 - mile 1921 to mile 1954
"Well at least now you will have a story to tell" Rob. It looks like PCT always has something in store for me. The day started very ordinarily, I woke up and rolled my entire household into the backpack while being accompanied by an orchestra of mosquitoes I could barely see in the morning light. I started walking and didn't see anyone until 3pm, it was just myself, mozzies, lakes of various shapes and water quality and an occasional chipmunk parkouring through the blowdown trees. I was kind of juggling my water around all morning, I found a lake filled the bottles in but then there was a snowmelt stream (a better water) so I would empty the bottles and get that water instead. I've done it a couple of times until during my lunchtime break at 1pm I suddenly realized that I am drinking out of my unfiltered water bottle, I've managed to drink half of it before even realising it, my clean water bottle was gone! I must have left it by one of the streams miles away, the...