Legs and Borders

"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 ...