Day 127: 2000 miles
The going continues to be slow related to our altitude, the sandy path and heavy packs. We continued to see smoke from forest fires today and in the morning we met 2 hikers who had been moved off their trail and had to find an alternate route. So far we have not been affected.
Apart from those 2 we have seen only 2 PCT hikers on the trail today.
Some of the trail today had been previously burnt although it has had some years to recover. There are also a lot of trees without bark and the trunks show quite beautiful patterns of red, orange and gold.
We managed 22.1 miles and are camped on the top of a hill. The scenery is reminiscent of Girraween with gravelly ground and large granite boulders. We have also seen a few helicopters fly over to drop water on the fire and the valley below is filled with smoke but with the wind blowing it away we haven’t been bothered as yet.
Those trees are beautiful. Hope the fires clear soon.
Can see why you take those seemingly desicated tree trunk photos…………..so beautiful!
Wonderful photos, hope you are not bothered by the fires