Legs and Borders

[Netarts to Three Rocks] Today followed a natural pattern of 'after an amazing day there comes an average one' it had a great ending though. First thing in the morning I hiked out along the coastal road from Netarts and followed it right up to the Cape Lookout where I went down to the beach and met my first OTC thru hikers, they were less than excited to see me, especially after I told them about my PCT adventure, we exchanged couple of useful informations (they've been using OCT guidebook to navigate, which I didn't know about) and I carried on walking along the beach. After a mile or two I reached Sand Lake Recreational Area where all the sand vehicle enthusiasts were having a field day, there were all kinds of off-road machines here, some of them looking like they got here straight from the new Mad Max movie set. I ended up getting lost between sand dunes trying to dodge the riders, it was quite a puzzle to get out of the area and walking in deep sand was making it e...

[Arch Cape to Netarts] I woke up in the morning and as promised by the Google search the weather was miserable, I decided to head out anyway and hiked about 10 miles through a really overgrown but quite pretty Oswald West State Park touching every wet fern and bramble along the way, I was dripping wet towards the end, last time my shoes got so full of water was well in Oregon when I hiked out from Ashland during the PCT over a month ago. I wasn't in the best of moods, my consolation price was seeing couple of elks which I spooked while they been grazing on the trail. Along the way I met group of people I also encountered yesterday on Tillamook Trail, they've been riding down the coast doing short hikes, it was quite funny as they have been the only humans I encounter in this miserable weather so far, we talked for a bit and went opposite directions. Oregon Coast Trail decided to steer towards Highway 101 as it usually did and force me to do more road walking which I did for ano...