July 21:The Dreaded Climb

Seiad Valley sits at 1371 ft, so whether you go north or south on the PCT, it's a hard climb regardless. As you get farther into northern CA, you start hearing about this horrid climb out of SV. It definitely lives up to it's reputation. In all we climbed between 7-8000 ft, and by the time we got into camp my legs were like jello.
You don't climb it all at once. You first go up about 4500 ft, and then there are a series of ups and downs for the rest of the day. Our camp was at around 6800 ft.

What was great was that we climbed out of the smoke and eventually left it behind (for good?). We had clear skies, great views, and clean air to breath. It was spectacular.

We fell asleep exhausted, only 8.8 miles from the Oregon border...our last night in CA...until we come back to hike the fire sections :).
Total Miles:1690.0
Miles Today:27.9
Camp 85:Alex Hole Cow Patties

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