Legs and Borders

"It was this time when COVID first hit when everyone got into the preppers mentality and started to buy out toilet paper, guns and bullets in shops. I had a gun already so me and Nessa went out and bought bunch of psychedelics" Eric. I woke up in Eric's RV van at 6:30am and munched on pringles while editing the blog for half an hour. About 7am I heard rumbling in the house so I assumed Eric woke up, we agreed to head out back to trail at 7:30am. I packed all my things and went outside, he came out and asked me if I wanted to have a  breakfast but I was pretty full after all the various meals I had yesterday so we only had a coffee. While driving back he blasted Mastodons tune called Oblivion, I downloaded it later on to my phone, it was pretty good. Eric got me back to the trail head,, for all the help he provided me with he didn't want any money in return. Perhaps he and Nessa will come to England one day I will be able to return the favour. On that note, we exchange...

"Early settlers travelling on wagon trains to the Willamette Valley used the Sisters as landmarks, calling them Faith, Hope and Charity. More recently they've been rather unimaginatively identified by position: North, South and Middle. Such prosaic names belie a dysfunctional family of volcanic temperament. A look at the names of adjacent peaks reveals that there are three sister but only one husband; also a little brother and a wife (presumably his but with this bunch who knows?) and a bachelor. We're talking a hotheaded group that spent thousands of years throwing fire at each other and generally misbehaving until the entire lava-littered landscape is a record of family violence". (A book about PCT I picked up at BLYC and totally forgot to note who the author was). Where do I even start with describing what happened today, it had totally unexpected and out of the comfort zone vibe. First I walked twelve remaining miles to Big Lake Youth Camp where in the especially ...

A long but strategically important day, I will have to make an interesting decision tomorrow but none of the options seem to be particularly convincing. Two thirds of the trail was covered in snow today, Oregon had some late spring snowfall this year and the levels are 33% above average, but still how the heck is there so much of it in here! Luckily it wasn't any 'sketchy' snow, just the regular slushy, fairly even fields of white powder. Also the scenery was quite beautiful so it made you forget about it every now and then and to seal the deal it was a mosquito free day! When the path wasn't covered in snow it was lava rock instead, we also walked briefly through a semi closed area full of obsidian, which was like stepping on a shattered glass. Landscape was one of the Oregon's finest so far, with many sharp peaks on the horizon, lakes and meadows with streams cutting right through them, we could not ask for much more scenic day. As I mentioned before, tomorrow I w...