Today was a day of logging roads and power lines. Our guidebook said "this leg is about to cross so many logging roads and forest roads that you might want to try to stick your spork in your eyes." A lot of road crossing yes, but I never wanted to poke my eye with my spork.
We woke to a foggy day at our camp, our rainfly was wet with dew so we put it away wet, packed up and headed on our way.
Off to another day and it's sights!
Bear-grass
The trail was surrounded with these bushes, all in bloom.
As I said in an earlier post the roads weren't confusing, the trail was always just on the other side of the road. As long as we didn't turn and roam around on the road aimlessly we were just fine.
Usually we found the PCT emblem somewhere as we re-entered the trail.
Small white flowers (Bride's Bonnet or Queens's cup?) dotted the forest floor.
Stag's-horn club moss (I believe)
Road crossing
We're now in the power lines, and the fog had cleared to another beautiful warm sunny day.
My husband looked down and saw the ground was covered in these very small wild strawberry plants. Mmmm yummy!
The power line areas were also full of blueberry bushes!
We passed several of these roped off areas.
More power lines and more berries
We walked under these lines that were very low over our heads. The buzzing and crackling was unnerving to me.
A pack off rest and water break after hiking up from the Stampede pass road crossing.
We walked a section that was just loaded with Bear-grass along the trail. We saw and heard our military jets overhead again this day as well.
Columbine
We finally came to a waterfall, listed as a seasonal water source on Guthook.
Off a bit from the water, my husband spied this frog enjoying the moisture.
A real "civilized" trail marker sign. I couldn't believe my eyes.
And the best sign yet, our constant emblem, confirming we were on the correct path.
It wasn't long till we came across Stirrup creek with a camp nearby. We put our things down and promptly went back to the creek and put our feet in. Ah...what a great feeling for aching hot feet.
The camp site was just big enough for our tent to fit. The mosquitoes were horrible at this spot. We donned our mosquito head nets and put on our repellent. After our feet soaking, tent set up and eating it was time for bed.
Relive video of our route:
Garmin stats:
total miles - 8.77
total ascent - 1224
total descent - 2375
to be continued.....
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