Start point
Holman Pass, mile 2638.3
End point
Boundary Trail (PNT) and tentsites, mile 2651.7
Miles hiked
13.4
Wilderness area
Okanogan National Forest
Pasayten Wilderness
The day on trail
I love sleeping outside, and this tent site was so nice. I wish I got a picture of it.
After getting up and taking care of morning things, I went over to the site with the weird trash, the one that looked abandoned. Everything was still there, so I picked it all up and put it in my pack.
It really was weird. It’s not the kind of trash you find at a tent site. Normally it’d be a forgotten dehydrated meal bag, or some wrappers, or something like that. This was things you need. Did they leave it because something happened? Did they decide they were done with the trail and didn’t need it anymore? And either way, what’s up with the sign they took…and left?
I just don’t get it. I only hope they’re okay.
We got ready and took off. I took Beth’s food bag to lighten her load and hopefully reduce the pain on her feet and back.
It was a little drizzly but not bad enough to stow the cameras.
The campsite had these cute mushrooms. Pholiota squarrosa, shaggy scalycap. They’re toxic, so don’t eat them.
The clouds were so low it felt like a ceiling.
The trail just stretched out, along the mountainside.
We saw this beautiful bird.
I love being out here. It’s just so wonderful. I hate that it’s coming to an end soon. Waking up with the sun and going to sleep when night falls. Having no worries but where I’m going to sleep and how low my cookie bag is getting. It’s really so wonderful to be out here. Being back with Rye will be nice, but I fear stability is overrated for me.
And road noise. I loathe road noise.
Oh well. We’ll see how it goes when I’m back.
A turn around a mountain side and there was a misty valley.
Photo op a little ways down!
There was another bird.
And more valleys. The mist had lifted.
I was a little ahead of Beth at this point, what with our different paces. It felt good to be hiking, regardless.
I stopped to take photos of this pika and give Beth a chance to catch up.
And we went to see more of these views.
In another rock outcropping, in the corner crevice of the turn of the trail, was this marmot.
Look at its butt!
There was another valley with a lake nestled in the bottom of it.
And yet another pika!
We got to the campsite.
FarOut had comments noting that the mice at the site were bold and to secure your food, extra. We set up camp and started dinner. A couple hikers came through, the opposite direction, while setting up. And one other pair took another tentsite. The sites were nice, aside from the mice that would poke their heads out.
After brushing our teeth, I hung my food bag up, and we went to bed.