Miles Hiked 220.7
PCT Mile 729.1
Elevation feet 5,735
Miles Hiked Today 19.6
I have discovered the infinite climb. It works like this. You go up on the trail wondering when it will flatten or descend. At the most unexpected moment, the trail then goes down only for a short time. Then it goes back up. Now the time and distance going down never seems to equal the time and distance the trail goes up. Consequently, you have an infinite climb. Yes, I thought this all up myself as I watched the trail seemingly go up continuously. I should write a paper on this. Maybe they’ll give me a Nobel prize.
Setting aside my Nobel prize theory, here’s how the day went. I was on my way by 6:00 a.m. . The goal today is to go almost 20 miles. I’m trying to position myself to go into Shelter Cove Resort in two days.
My infinite climb theory was formulated as I hiked today. Despite the conditions present that enables me to come up with the infinite climb theory, I surprisingly kept a two mile per hour pace. There were a lot of northbound PCT through hikers today. I would guess that the leading edge of the bubble is in central Oregon right now.
In the early afternoon, I came out of a forest in which I was hiking all morning. What greeted me was miles of dead forest. It must have been some fire, because sections of the burn area had trees burned to the ground. There were not a lot of standing widowmakers.
There was some concern as I approached my target destination, which is Charlton Lake. There were dead trees along the shore of the lake. However, when I got to the campsite, there were live trees. Yes, there was one widowmaker, and if it falls, hopefully it will fall away from my tent. There was no way I was going to go any further to find a better campsite.
Tomorrow, I will hike until I’m a few miles from Shelter Cove Resort, and then camp for the night. I want to spend almost an entire day at the resort.
