Legs and Borders

"We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like, we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our equals"  Alain de Botton. Very straight forward day. We woke up at 7am had a breakfast at Swede's house after that he dropped us off at the Bridge of the Gods where we said our goodbyes. The walk through the bridge was great, people were waving at us from the cars it felt like we really accomplished something special even though it's still quite a way to go. It was mainly uphill from that point, bridge is the lowest point on the entire PCT so it couldn't be any different. Day was hot and humid, I ended up pushing 25 miles and setting up the camp by a disused road in the forrest. Tank Top with Fomo and Lucky ended up pushing few additional miles, I'll try to catch them up tomorrow.

Today we came down to Cascade Locks, the last stop and finish line for the state of Oregon. Once we will pass through Bridge of the Gods we will be in Washington and the last 500 miles of PCT will begin. Today myself, Tank Top, Fomo and Lucky took an alternative PCT route from our campsite leading through Eagle Creek and it's many amazing waterfalls, most notably Tunnel Falls which had the trail running behind it through a tunnel carved in the solid rock, it was spectacular. There was many day hikers walking six miles each way on a very steep and exposed cliff edge to see it. We reached Cascade Locks around 3pm where Swede, Tank Tops friend took us to this house for the night. We did our usual chores, resupplied and then our host and his wife prepared us a delicious dinner with rice, fresh vegetables, grilled chicken and venison from the deer he has hunted. There was triple chocolate ice cream for desert, then we went down to the garden to chill out before heading to bed. We ate so...