Total Miles: 205
My phone got wet and is fried! Crazy snow. It was sketchy and tough-going. Obviously no pictures, sorry.
I’m taking a rest day and getting all this figured out.
Yesterday was really bad out there. Once my phone died, I was in some trouble. No blazes, and the trail was completely covered in snow. Also, it was windy, raining, in the low 40’s, and I broke my trekking pole.
I kept having to pull my phone out to navigate where I was going. But it was raining and snowing so hard that it eventually just got too wet. All I could do was walk with the inReach GPS using the compass to go north.
I basically blazed my own trail for 18 miles through the woods, covered in snow and soaking wet, until I made it to highway 62 by 7pm. From there I walked a mile to Crater lake. Frozen and soaked, I dropped $230 on the only hotel room they had left.
It’s snowing at Crater lake right now. June 13th! The trail is covered with over 4 feet of snow.
Basically Oregon is all snow pack and Washington will be the same. My pace is slowed, but today during my hitch into town, (Chiloquin, OR) I saw another hiker on the side of the road. It was “Sloppy Joe”! He got his ass kicked in the storm yesterday as well, and is also taking a zero. We’re teaming up for the rest of the PCT, it makes sense at this point to do so.
Once I get my new phone, I wont have anything saved from my old phone. So any texts I get from anyone, I wont know the number. Instagram, Far Out, TrackMe, Gaia, audiobooks and Spotify will all have to be re-downloaded. I’ll do them when I can, but Far Out and Gaia will be first, as well as TrackMe.
The marker dots on the map will be missing for a week or so, but I survived another crazy week out here and within the next couple days, in the snowpack and weather, we have Mount Thielson to do (9,100 ft.)
I found snowshoes. lol