Day 149 Miles: 22 From Indian Creek Trailhead Even with the sun, even with a “ventilated” tarp, it is always a soggy morning here in the North Cascades. I hear Biscuit stirring next to us and know it’s time to get up. It’s cold enough this morning that for the first time I leave on…

Day 148 Miles: 19 From Grizzly Peak to Indian Creek Trailhead The inside of our tarp is sopping wet, I mean, possibly wetter inside than outside. I peek outside – nope. Everything is sopping wet. I turn over and go back to sleep. When I wake back up, a brilliant ray of sun is shining…

Day 147 Miles: 14 From the Dinsmores’ to Grizzly Peak The rain is back, I slept badly in the Dinsmore dormitory, and we have no food. I can’t do anything about the first two, but I’ll need to fix the last one. We tried to forward one of the boxes we never picked up in…

Day 146 Miles: 18 From Deception Lakes to the Dinsmores We sleep well; we sleep late. The plan was to get up early and get our miles done early to increase our chances of a successful hitch to the trail angels The Dinsmores’ from Steven Pass. So much for that. But I feel wonderful. The…

Day 144 Miles: 20 From the Waptus River to Deception Lakes Due to the falling rain, we make the decision to keep our foodbags dry and inside the tarp tonight, instead of dealing with a bear-hang like we usually do. (Rodent-hang is more like it, seeing as we usually hang it about mouth-height for the…

Day 144 Miles: 20 From ridge above Spectacle Lake to Waptus River At each of my three morning alarms I wake up, look outside the tarp at the exquisite morning light across the peaks, then go back to sleep. I’m feeling a bit off. Or possibly just lazy. Hard to say. The golden dawn is…