Goodbye California - Hello Oregon (D-79: 1655.9 - 1680.2, D-80: 1680.2 - 1708.2, D-81: 1708.2

Goodbye California - Hello Oregon (D-79: 1655.9 - 1680.2, D-80: 1680.2 - 1708.2, D-81: 1708.2 - 1717.7)

Finally California came to an end yesterday! Took 80 days to walk the length of California...it sure is a big state - whew!!

Before that, on Day 79, left Seiad Valley after an early breakfast at the Seiad Cafe. Took a 12-mile long, but pleasant road walk as the trail was reportedly overgrown and not fully maintained and joined the trail at mile 1657. Didn't see anything spectacular on this day and hardly took any pics.

Waterfall by the road

As the day came to a close, the weather started turning and it started lightly drizzling. Decided to set up camp early before it started pouring. It did rain slightly overnight, but it became a bit more persistent early morning just as we were starting out 😏.

It was a rather damp and foggy all of Day 80.

(video link of July 4th morning)

Of course, the biggest highlight of the day was crossing into Oregon.

Guess the wet & clammy day was an Oregonian welcome 🙂.

(video link of July 4th afternoon in the clouds)

Cows along the trail (reminded me of India 😀)

Since it was such a wet day and there was prediction of more rain overnight, we decided to stay in a picnic shelter along the trail. They only one seen so far on PCT.

And, the shelter had a fireplace right in the center (which helped dry the wet shoes and socks) as well as a nice clean pit toilet next to it. A few other hikers had also decided to take advantage of this shelter and there were a total of 9 hikers. Long time since I had seen so many hikers at the same campsite. It was fun!

Guess this was also an Oregonian welcome!

Woke up the next day to a very foggy morning and a light misty drizzle. However today was a town day. Everybody was going into Ashland - the first town on the trail in Oregon! Quickly hiked to Interstate 5 and called a local taxi to take us into town. Then it was the standard nero day activities - starting with breakfast, of course.

Did resupply shopping and also shipped out 2 boxes of food to places down the trail - enough food to get us through the whole of Oregon.

For lunch, had Indian buffet - the first Indian non-ready-to-eat food I had in 2.5 months.

Finally, did hand-washing of clothes as there was no nearby laundry & dried them outside the hotel room.

Data:

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D-80:

D-82:

Comments

[v] said…

Day 79 is so Khardung La esque

climb. Must be a big mountain ⛰ out there.

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