We had walked about 2 hours, and usually we take a break about then. But we were very excited to see, just up ahead of us on the trail, our friends we had been hoping to catch. Turns out they had camped only a mile or so past us the night before; it was fun catching up to them and hearing how things had been going. We ended up walking 13 miles before we took a break, which put us ahead for the day.
At our last break for the day, we were 15 miles from Crater Lake, and 8 from where we wanted to camp. It was something vague like "Second Old Road," but it sounded like it would be flat and it left us only 6 miles into the campground for the morning. We left last from the break, and kept our eyes open for their tents as we drew near to where we thought this road should be.
We walked and walked and walked, and my legs were killing me. Eventually we came to a signed trail junction and we were surprised to find out we were only 2.9 miles from the highway and therefore 4 miles or so from the campground. We knew they had gotten sucked into the lure of food and showers, so after a few minutes of debating, we decided to walk and see how we felt. Luckily National Park signs are almost always wrong on mileage, and the road was only 2 miles away. We hobbled into the store and campground thoroughly tired and so glad to be done walking. We agreed that we hoped we never did that again as we joined the 15 or so other hikers at a campsite and fell asleep exhausted (but excited to sleep in a bit and get to eat at the all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet in the morning).
Total Miles:1830.4
Miles Today:37.0 (+1.0ish road miles)
Camp 90:Mazama Campground
------------------------------
Allow us to help those in need, sell back your spare PocketMail and make some extra pocket money.
No comments:
Post a Comment