Week 17, Crater Lake to Bend!

Whiskey walk with Fun Size and Dr Chip to Crater Lake Rim

Rainnnnn

Salty Dog with Salazon Chocolate

Ruthie's mom brought us pizza and fireball!!

A love letter from Anna!

 

Enjoying Tracy's Small Batch Granola! Perfect time to have a lot of this granola with us because we can top it with fresh picked huckleberries and blueberries!! LOVE this granola

 

Mt Theilsen

Theilsen Creek

Satisfying my cravings!

My mom sent my sister with homemade food for us!!!

Enjoying a soak 

Beer fest hackysack game

DANCE

BEND!

8/8

1812-1835

8/9

1835-1861
Rim village to Theilsen creek. Wonderful dinner with cashew butter. Amy read to me. Tired today. So many tourist on the rim. Smokey view. I love this woman to the moon and back for eternity!!!!

8/10

36.5 miles 

Sky view trail
LONGEST DAY ON THE TRAIL

8/11

Walked to shelter cove in the morning. The walk was beautiful next to a river in a typical, yet marvelous dense, mossy, Oregon forest full of fresh berries. We are blue berries and huckleberries all morning before we arrived at shelter cove resort. We never knew Oregon had such a strong lake resort culture. Every campground in southern and central Oregon calls itself a resort. 

              We got coffee, muffins, and breakfast burritos at the store and sat around an enormous fire pit with a smoldering fire in it while we enjoyed the beautiful view overlooking the lake and ate our breakfast. Charged up, did some sink laundry in the bathroom, our box didn't show up so we resupplied at the store that had very little.

              Enjoyed the sunshine on the deck, chatted with my bro on the phone and hit the the trail a little late. Made it to charleston lake where we set up camp in the dark.

8/12

Got to elk lake resort after a long 30 mile day in the cold wet rain! Soaked to the bone and feeling soggy, we collapsed in DJ's car with elated hearts once we reached the resort. DJ drove up from San Francisco that day and drove 45 minutes out of his way to pick us up and take us to his house. We showered at dj's and prepared to go out for the Tuesday night shenanigans. All of my friends from work were getting off an 8 day shift that night and we were lucky enough to join them. 

              Ate, drank, and rejoiced with lots of wonderful friends at the crux. Went to the Ogden house and ended up taking a flight to the play ground down the street for a late night ultimate game! I love my friends! Thanks you guys for a wonderful night.

8/13

BEND! Lazy day. Met Amy's sister and nick and deagan! Great dinner in the hotel and beer at the crux.

Photo problem FIXED! week 11,12 & 13 are updated!

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Week 11, 12 & 13 updated!

Week 16 the end of California, finally in Oregon!

Week 16

OREGON!! We're in our homeland! 

Running the last eleven miles of California. Slack pack, thanks to Happy Nomad!

Lava fields!

Smoke glow

Slack pack crew

Fire near Siad Valley

PCT hiker party in Ashland!

Hiker trash sleeping on the side of the road....

(more about this week will be published soon!)

8/1- Seiad, 20 miles

8/2- 32 miles day over border

What a glorious day!! Happy Nomad made us pancakes for breakfast and took our packs for the last 11 miles to the California/Oregon border. We ran most of those 11 miles which ruined me, but Glitter Bug had no problems as usual. It felt so good to finally cross a state border, California took forever! There was a big crew of people that got in on the slack pack and we all hung out at the border for a while and celebrated. Loving being back in our home state!

8/3- 13.5 miles to old 99

8/4- zero

Ashland was so much fun! Sydney picked us up from the trail and took us to the house she is staying at. We showered and then went to lunch in downtown ashland. Sydney lives with a very sweet family who owns the farm she is working on. We got a private room at the Ashland Hotel, which is a super cute place run by a very nice couple. I would really like to return to this hostel and go see some plays at the Shakespeare Festival. We went out to dinner with Syd and her roommate, then we all got some beer at Caldera. Caldera eventually turned into a big hiker party as everyone who hitched around the alleged fires met in ashland and came to drink beer. We got to see so many people that we haven't seen for a long time and we celebrated all night. The hiker trash crew shut down Calderas and migrated to a O' Beron's for more drinks and live music. What a night with great people, great gypsy swing music. and a jammy pack street dance party to top it all off. 

8/5- old 99-1758

8/6- 1758 1782

8/7 1782-1812