We had our first real rain where we needed our rain jackets. Crossed the Bridge of the Gods (don’t look down) and started climbing out of the Columbia River Gorge.
Washington was rain forest like I kind of expected from Oregon.
We are just past forest road 2070. Sharing our tent site with Resilient who survived a pretty horrific accident. She started around June 14 at Tuolumne Meadows. So she has covered about the same amount of trail but without the flipping and jumping about.
Juicy and Monarch (Butterfly) just joined us.
5,014 feet of ascent. 20.3 miles from the town (plus miles in town and from one wrong turn on the trail).
Others missed getting rained on where they were on the trail.
Last night we had a lot of wind and the trains rain right by the tents all night long.
I am hoping to rest better and have a better day. Though we are looking at over 6k feet of climbing (633 flights of stairs for the Fitbit crowd).
Our next resupply is Trout Lake in 61.5 miles.
My little finger is recovering well.
We had huckleberry licorice for dinner.
Abear in the Woods joined us as did Peg Leg. We have six tents set up here and a couple that are deciding between cowboy camping and setting up a tent.
No mosquitoes yet. Everyone jokes it is the Washington taxes keeping them out.