First town in Oregon, and I'm loving it! Ashland is a wonderful town, with a little downtown area that has a lot of different restaurants and a Shakespeare Festival. The hike from Etna has been nice as well, without too many ups and downs, and with wonderful people:) We got into Seiad Valley(which is apparently the heart of the state of Jefferson- if you don't know, look it up), and the cafe was closed, so we didn't do the 5 pound pancake challenge. I also happened to pick up some poison oak along the way, but it's not too itchy, so I haven't been too bothered by it.
Marble Mountains!
The berries are starting to ripen, I got about half a gatorade bottle full- SO tasty!
New shoes in Seiad Valley after wearing the ones in the middle for about 900 miles- they had NO tread left
It was hot in Seiad Valley- The Graduate and Max Chill hanging out at the RV Park
Thru- hiker Non-Essentials
Made it to Oregon! August 6 at about 930am
Thru-hiker Essentials?
You can still see Mt.Shasta coming out of the mist!
reading your blog makes me happy and sad. i long to be hiker trash again... and your trip looks amazing!!!
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ReplyDeletenice. I had a bottle of that in CT.
I wasn't really during my trip.. but I'll be following your blog from here on out. I made it to Khatadin August 17th.
PSOC thru-hiker, fuck yeah.