Legs and Borders

Long day to get me within the hiking distance to the 9am shuttle to Stehekin tomorrow. Weather was on the edge the entire day, the forecast was predicting the rain and it did rain slightly few times throughout the day but I guess we've been walking away from the clouds so it never got bad and some shade provided by them worked out really well. The 3200 feet ascent wasn't as bad as yesterday's big climb thanks to the lack of overgrowth and being more gradual overall. The blow down trees were present all day long though providing us with all sort of problem solving activities. Once we climbed out of the treeline the scenery became breathtaking, I think the ridge we could see to our left around the Fortress Mountain and Martin Peak is my favourite one of the entire trail, just looking at it makes you want to go and walk it somehow, I doubt there's any trail that goes over it. A beautiful beast though. I saw what might have been the oldest person so far on the trail while w...

Great day, Washington finally opened itself up, green tunnel has ended, we should have more landscapes to see from now on. It was also a very hot day, I must have drank about 10 litres of water, luckily there was a lot of snow melting around so the crisp, cold water was flowing abundantly. Trail should be getting easier as we walk towards the snow covered areas. I've seen many south going hikers or Sobo's today, it looks like we finally got a proper overlap which is also a good sign, for once they will push those feet into the snow for us making an easier traverses, for second it can't be that bad anymore moving forward since they managed to get through. Walking on the ridge from Old Snowy Mountain towards White Pass was absolutely spectacular, it really reminded me of traversing Sierra Nevada two months ago, I took way too many pictures of this area.  I should be descending into White Pass, Krakel Barrel resupply point tomorrow morning, I'm camping around 8 miles away ...