After a sleep in until 6:30, we wandered down to the cafe beside the lake and ordered bacon, sausage, eggs, potato and pancakes to have with orange juice, coffee and hot chocolate. So you can see that our appetites are good and we are doing our best to stock up with calories when we can.

With OG and PCT hiker friends Sebastian and Mary.

After uploading our blogs and saying goodbye to friends, we set back out to the trail. The weather remains favourable with clear skies and cool air – pleasant for the outward climb.

On the way we stopped to eat lunch – chicken and salad rolls we had bought at the Cafe – and look out at the view of the lake below us. Further on we passed a number of very pretty lakes – blue and emerald green. We saw a deer down the hill from us at one spot and a weasel (or maybe a mink) ran across our path and off into the forest.

We are camped right beside Bobby Lake which has supplied us the water we need for camp. While we were eating dinner a cheeky bird flew down to us and took away an apple core – OG informed us that it is called a Camp Robber!