Legs and Borders

"Washington is up and down like this from the beginning, I'm sick and tired of it" Chimney [Sobo hiker] The end is nigh and you can sense the anticipation in everybody going north at the moment. Lots of Sobo hikers congratulates us as we pass them, I was initially not happy about it, but they are right it is a reasonable assumption that whoever made it that far will end up at the Canadian border. Fire season has started, the section on the California/Oregon border is on fire, 60 PCT hikers had to be evacuated from the area. Parts of Sierra Nevada (not on the trail itself) is also on fire. Fomo's friend George who hosted us in Snoqualmie Pass has hiked PCT three times, he has never done it without skipping a section because of the fire closure, we did (well technically not just yet) we managed to hike the entire Pacific Crest Trail without dropping anything and that ladies and gentleman is insane! It has been a very special year on the west coast, lots of snow and rain...

It was a fairly uneventful day. I went past Lucky's tent in the morning surprised to see it as I thought he would have pushed further with Tank Top and others. He told me later during the day that he took a wrong turn, lost few miles and decided to camp just before a big climb we've been doing in the morning. It was really hot all day but apparently it's the last day of heatwave and temperatures will be dropping tomorrow, thank God. I've been drinking water like an elephant all day, stopping at nearly every water source available. Speaking of water, we had a big stream crossings today which had to be forded, it reminded me of the ones in Sierra Nevada. It definitely wasn't fun, luckily there was few other people around in case something went wrong. This section of the trail seems very busy, we are overlapping with Southbound PCT hikers and day/weekend hikers which is quite cool, there's a lot of friendly faces I can say "happy trails" to. I got 22 mile...