Legs and Borders

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in" Leonard Cohen "I absolutely hate mosquitoes, fuck! Sorry I think I have a mosquito breakdown. Fuck, fUCK, FUCK, AAAaa!" Sonic It was quite an angry day, but it ended in a quite interesting resolution. While walking to White Pass I met Sonic who camped just few miles ahead of me on top of the ridge hoping that she will escape the mosquitoes there but sadly she didn't. She was quite cranky already when I met her but then we ended up walking through yet another mosquito hell, she was walking without a head net (which she lost a while ago in Oregon) and deet spray protection, so after couple of minutes she completely lost her temper and started to walk really fast trying to get to White Pass as quickly as possible swearing and shouting like a pirate. I could still hear her banshee like screams in front of me half an hour later, if I didn't know what it was I would have thought someone was getting...

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 ...