miles: 23
Lots of steep ups and downs today as the trail made it's way through logging roads, clear-cuts, and areas littered with power lines and evidence of human activity. Today will go down in history as one of our least scenic days on the trail, for sure. The landscape was sprinkled with unattractive clear-cuts, bald spots on the hillside.
At least the weather was nice.
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| Double Double Rainbows smashed together. |
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| Mt. Rainier shows up! We are now on the OTHER side of him...whoa! |
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| The mountains that are ahead. Intimidating... |
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| Our views today. |
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| More mushroom mayhem. |
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| Mushrooms everywhere. |
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| Ben hiking at dusk. |
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| Ben hiking at dusk. |
By dusk we had only done about 20 miles - we were perplexed as to why we did so few miles, but it could have had something to do with our late start (9:00am) or our extensive mid-morning break turned lunch (3 hours).
Our goal was to get as close to Snoqualmie Pass as possible, setting ourselves up for a short day in tomorrow. Ideally we would only have 12-15 miles to do, but it was looking more like we'd need to do 19 the following day. Ughh.
Lately, it's been getting harder and harder for me mentally. To stay focused. I've been daydreaming of going home, of the luxuries of "real life", of not walking everyday... Especially now. Today was a real test - the steep, seemingly pointless ascents and descents, and meandering trail that goes out of it's way to switchback more than it needs to. Washington - gettin' hard.
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