Canada to Skykomish

Trip Start May 15, 2005
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Trip End Oct 2005


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Thursday, September 22, 2005

Just a quick update on my status: I flipped up to Manning Park, Canada from Ashland, Oregon and began hiking south on September 11th. Had a great resupply day in Stehekin, on the shore of Lake Chelan. The PCT has a 50 mile detour between Stehekin and Skykomish due to flooding that occurred in 2003. Rabbit and I decided not to take the detour but hike the actual PCT. Eight bridges were washed away and some switchbacks had completely disappeared in mudslides, but we got through just fine and had lots of fun.
I'm now just west of Steven's Pass in Skykomish, WA. I don't have time to upload pictures here, and won't for some time, but when I do you'll see how absolutely amazing the Cascades are.
Weather has not been great to this point. We got snowed and rained on the first full day out of Canada. It's been mostly cloudy since but with enough sunbreaks to see Glacier Peak and countless others. It's been in the low 30's each morning but warming through the day.
I'll be at Snoqualmie Pass on September 25th where I'll see a few friends from Seattle. Sorry this update is so short. Washington is really a tough place to find an internet connection on the trail. Pretty crazy when I'm only a couple hours from Microsoft.
Overall I'm at about 1900 miles out of 2663 and should finish in Oregon early November.
Thanks again to everyone. I'll have a better update as soon as possible.

Drew - a.k.a. Tabasco
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lseales
lseales on Sep 22, 2005 at 02:11PM

Hey Drew!!!
Sounds like your trip is going just great!! I see you had to go to Canada and head south...a 'flip flopper,' which is still MUCH more impressive than a section hiker as Jeanne, Tracy and I are. Thanks for posting our picture and calling us all 'girls!' We loved it!

Good luck on the rest of your adventure! Take good care, Linda

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