Day 118
Start: Mt. Washington
Finish: Sisters, OR
Daily Mileage: 9.6
PCT Mile: 2001.9
Good night sleep and a slightly lazy start since we were headed to town. It was a quick downhill and we arrived at Big Lake Youth Camp which offers showers, laundry, a kitchen, and package holding to hikers. It was a great place, but unfortunately UPS delayed my replacement shoes twice and my package wasn’t there yet.
I had really been looking forward to the new shoes. Mine are narrow since it was all I could find since Brooks decided to discontinue my shoe for a to-be-released next version that isn’t out yet in the middle of the hiking season after being available for less than a year. I’ve cut up my right shoe to give my foot room, but I still have foot pain every few steps from the shoes being too tight. I’m pretty tired of it after 500 miles on these shoes and was really looking forward to the new shoes. They are rescheduled for delivery tomorrow when I will be 20+ miles down the trail, so that won’t really work, and they are closed Sundays (today) so I can’t even talk to them. Pretty disappointed because I will have to continue walking in pain for the next 100 miles until I can possibly get another package.
We did the chores we could at the youth camp since it everything was available in a PCT hiker hut and we wouldn’t have to run around town later to do all of the same things. We even got some camp breakfast.
Then it was just a few short, flat miles to the highway into Sisters. My stomach was acting up which keeps happening after I have town food about half the time. No good, but it usually clears up.
We arrived at the road into Sisters, and it was quite the fast 2 lane highway. There was no shoulder at the trail crossing so we hiked to a slightly wider spot on the road where we got a hitch in about 10 minutes from a couple whose daughter hiked the PCT a few years ago.
Nice easy ride into Sisters and we got set up at the campground there and did our camp chores around town for the rest of the day.