Day 155 Miles: 21 From Highway 20 to Glacier Peak I don’t know what it was about our funny, little, tucked-away campsite, but something was magical. Here, in earshot of the highway, I slept like an angel. I’m ready to do this hiking business today. J cuts the sticky bun in half and we share…

Day 154 Miles: 19 From Stehekin to Highway 20 Well, I’m still tired, but I guess I may as well see this thing through to the end. Partly cloudy today, cool, with an iffy weather forecast. Could go either way. Switch and Biscuit stayed in Stehekin yesterday as well, and we all take the shuttle…

Day 153 Miles: 0 Stehekin I am unbelievably exhausted. The majority of the other hikers here are heading out today, last push to the border. The weather report for the next week could go either way, but it is absolutely perfect today. I watch the perfect blue sky wheel across the mountains and the lake…

Day 152 Miles: 12 From Hemlock Camp to Stehekin I wake up not to sun, but to the possibility of it. I was hoping to wake up feeling magically cured, not like a wrung out dish-rag, but dish-rag is still better than yesterday. J once again lures me out of my sleeping bag with steaming…

Day 151 Miles: 15 From Miners’ Creek to Hemlock Camp I knew that when I woke up this morning I would still feel terrible, knew it in my skin chills and deep down in the body aches – but a girl can hope. J coaxes me out of my purple and teal nylon cocoon with…

Day 150 Miles: 18 From Mica Lake to Miners’ Creek The blue beaten steel of mica lake last night is transformed – just for a moment – into a bowl of molten gold. The weather forecast had said rain for today, but instead it is this golden morning. V, Thinkfast, and Goosebumps came in to…