Start: Seattle
Finish: Seiad Valley
Daily Mileage: 0
PCT Mile: ????
Today was a “zero day”, and in typical fashion the day was incredibly busy. Kate lives a ways from me, so we got up early and she drove us to my place to get my car for our dash down to NorCal. I had left it on jackstands with the wheels off, the battery on a trickle charger, and stabilizer in the fuel tank.
Kate dropped us and had to run for commitments she had. I managed to get the car started after cleaning corrosion off the battery terminals, we got the car back on the ground, and after letting it run for a few minutes after its 5 months layup, we left straight away on a Google suggested 9 hour drive down I-5 to get back to California.
These past few days in particular have been very busy with long hours of hiking and not enough sleep, so I was already running on fumes, but I wanted to finish and this stretch of trail was the only thing standing in my way.
The drive was long and had traffic and construction, but we made it down and trail angel Vicki had graciously volunteered to host us for the night in her off-grid log cabin, feed us dinner, and drive us from Seiad Valley to Etna the next day. She and her husband Andy were absolutely fantastic and I would have loved to spend more time at their place, but time was short. We arrived tired at 9:30 and had Vicki’s delicious dinner of curry stew over rice, cornbread, quiche, and home grown tomatoes before crashing well after hiker midnight, primed for hiking again tomorrow.