Finally some photos! Sadly it was pretty smokey from a large forest fire in eastern OR between just after Burney to Crater Lake.
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| A couple of bike tourists from Portland, OR that know my friend Bob K! |
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| Gettin' there! |
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| Large dam near Burney Falls, sadly I forgot to get a picture of the falls... |
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| Cougar or dog? |
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| 71 year old Japanese native Toyo is also hiking the trail! What's your excuse now? :) |
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| Castle Crags outside Castella, CA |
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| Heading up towards Castle Crags! |
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| Look closely and there's a pipe spewing ice cold spring water. Lots of these in NorCal. |
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| More delicious spring water! |
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| I don't know why I like trees swollowing signs so much. |
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| Paradise Lake! One of my favorite campsites, the lake is fed entirely by a huge spring off to the left. |
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| Spring feeding Paradise Lake. |
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| This is what most of the views looked like, pretty smokey. |
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| I see one of these guys about once a week. Why do they run away? I just want to cuddle! |
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| Oregon border! Still in the shirt my brother gave me 1,000 miles ago! |
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| The sign leaves a bit to be desired but you get the idea. |
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| Pilot Rock outside Ashland. |
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| Bad weather blowing in. |
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| This little mountain top was called Lucifer on my map. |
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| Lots of burn in OR. |
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| Really sad walking through the PCT in Crater Lake NP because they are the least maintained of the entire trail. Lots of dead trees and poorly drained trail. Thanks Repulicans! |
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| Morning after the rain. |
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| My camera is not big enough to get the whole lake, it was pretty amazing. |
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| 4 cold hikers on the crater lake rim! From left to right: Lightning Rod, Hiker Box Special (me), Halfway and Scrub Hiker. |
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| Sunrise over the lake. Sadly the smoke blew back in overnight. |
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| Thanks forest fires... |
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| Another sign swollowing trees! The trail in OR is very old.. I haven't seen this emblem anywhere else. |
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| The highest point on the "official" PCT in OR and WA. The real highest point is unmarked on the crater lake rim. |
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| Lots of lakes in this flat boring section. I really hate drinking lake water too. |
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| Diamond Peak was the only view for about 200 miles... |
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| Kermit, a PCT hiker's father, gave me and two other hikers a lift to the trailhead in his kermit the frog VW van. Totally awesome! |
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| More lakes... yay.. |
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| Sweet cabin! I wanted to do 6 more miles that day but it ended here! |
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| Me and a few others spent the night telling stories and playing poker. |
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| These are what my maps look like if anyone is curious. Usually they're not upside down though. |
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| That old school PCT emblem again. Future tattoo? |
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| After 200 viewless miles I turn a corner and see horses! That means a pack train which means FOOD! |
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| It was a Fish and Game group doing fish surveys in those lakes I was complaining about They gave me one of those giant steaks!!!! |
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| South Sister in the distance, a little smokey here too. |
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| Clouds blew in as I approached the three sisters. |
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| RV'ing with pack animals? |
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| Obsidian! |
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| Obsidian falls! |
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| Mountains! |
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| You can see the smoke in the distance, sometimes it sort of condenses overnight like that. |
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| North and Middle Sister. |
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| The start of about 6 miles of on and off lava rock walking, not fun on the feet. |
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| Water Cache, try and read that poster if you can. |
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| How did a tree ever grow here? |
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| Me n' Washington |
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| 2,000 miles hiked!!!!!!!! Two other hikers and I made the marker since there was nothing at the spot. |
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| Bend is my kind of town! |
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