10 Miles
A rough morning starting at 4am due to other hikers taking an hour and a half to pack up and leave. After they left, the younger group started packing up and were on trail in a half hour. We left after that, but didn’t have to worry about noise since everyone near us was gone. The trail to Shelter Cove Resort is easy enough, but particularly nice in the last 5 miles as it runs along a river. The resort was full of hikers in the designated PCT tent and out front of the general store in the picnic area. The rules for hikers were many, but for having an okay resupply in the middle of the woods (including free camping and coin-op showers & laundry) the resort was great. We started off checking the hiker boxes, then got resupply food, then burgers for lunch, showers, got in line for laundry, played cornhole with Steer against Sisyphus and Hermit, ate pizza for dinner, then went to hang out in the tent. Magnet showed up so we chatted with her. She is doing 30’s through Oregon and was saying Sam and Jim (now called Sure Foot and Day Hiker) are doing 40’s. Crazy mileage. Our feet and legs are feeling the 20’s we’ve been doing, I can only imagine the pain they’re in.
PCT Hike 