September 20 day 118 camped mile 1980.7 hiked 23.5 miles today.
The day started beautiful and progressively got more threatening. Traveled thru some lovely country. I fortunately made camp before the storm came.
September 21 day 119 camped mile 2001.5 Big Lake Youth Camp hiked 21.6 miles today.
Great scenery today with spits of rain now and again. Passed thru barren lava flow areas below the peaks of the Sisters. Got to Big Lake Youth Camp pretty early. Never saw anyone from the camp. Picked up a resupply package I had sent there, showered and laundered my clothes. Met Wonderer another thru hiker and we hung out in the PCT area outside the laundry room. Not much but it was a relative heaven for us warm and dry.
September 22 day 120 camped mile 2030.6 hiked 29.9 miles today.
Rain all day. Passed a number of wet hikers and two section hikers. It was a very hard day. Everything was soaked and my tent pole had broken. I kluged a repair that kept failing durning the night. I would snooze and find that it had broken and then fix it again. It was a hard cold wet night.
September 23 day 121 camped mile 2054.2 Head Lake hiked 23.9 miles today. The rain was only intermittent today. I got moving pretty early and was moving fast to warm up. There were some beautiful forest sections but mostly I was just trying to stay dryish and warm. I was wearing nearly all my clothes most of the day. My Marmot rain pants had started to delaminate and thus fail yesterday. They will need to be tossed out. Hoped to get a cabin at Olallie Lake Resort but they were closed for the season. Camped nearby.
September 24 day 122 camped mile 2081.5 hiked 27.2 miles today.
It was raining hard this morning. I considered staying where I was but eventually motivated to move. Had to keep up a pretty good pace to keep warm enough. Didn’t really stop for more than a minute any time during the day in order to stay warm enough. Ate and drank on the move. Got a speck of sunshine before the rain started up again. Saw 3 south bounders today.
I plan on having a zero at Timberline Lodge. That should dry me out.