Legs and Borders

Today was my first actual day off on the trail. After discussing the options with Tank Top, Fomo and Lucky we all decided to spend another day at Swede's house which he and his wife graciously allowed us to. It was a pretty steady and uneventful day, everyone was either sleeping, eating or just sitting around browsing internwebs. I've watched 'Return to Space' with Elon Musk about his SpaceX program on Netflix it was quite interesting. About 4pm we decided to head off to town in a car Swede borrowed us, we went to Mod Pizza, a Subway style pizzeria where you could build your own pizza from scratch and after that went to the cinema to see 'Thor: Love and Thunder' which thanks to Taika Waititi direction and performances by Natalie Portman, Russell Crowe and Christian Bale as a villain had a certain appeal to it. We went back to Swede's house after the movie where we got offered a rhubarb pie with vanilla ice cream. Swede told us about his life as a police offi...

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...