As expected the night was rough, very rough! Because I have a single-wall tent I am not allowed to touch the walls when its raining otherwise I’ll get wet too. I woke up at 3am and couldn’t find any more sleep because. So I played with my phone until it was time to get up. Well, getting up was not easy today because everything was frozen over night. And by everything I mean everything. From socks to…
After a relaxing week in Portland where I did my first atempt on sending resupply packages I was going back to Cascade Locks. I missed the bus only by 2 minutes… but missed is missed and I had to call an Uber to drive me all the way back to Cascade Locks. 57$ which I could habe better spent than this. Eve, my driver dropped me if in front of the supermarket where I had to buy…
Spending the night in a bed was not as comfortable as I’d expected. The room was really warm with no air-conditionning and having the windows open didn’t helped enough. The hotel was build in 1939 an renovated in 1955. Since then everything has been kept the same way. It was some kind of historical flashback beeing there for the short time. We sat at the famous buffet at 8am. Everyone on trail tells you to go there…
After spending two days off trail with driving to portland and back, shopping, drinking wine, having a lot of showers and buying a 9 day resupply Fabienne and I were back on trail. The weather was amazing, it had rained two days ago when we were off-trail so the air is cleared from the smoke and the trail is dust-free. Perfect conditions if the beginning wouldn’t have been a 6 mile uphill section, a tough start for Fabienne….