Day 24

23 miles
Not sure of how far we were going to walk today, we started by just picking water stops ahead and we’d wait to see how everyone was feeling at lunch. Yardsale and Chickadee took off first and I eventually caught up to them at the first spring. I had only been there for a minute before a bear came waltzing out of the bushes eating berries along the way. It walked over to the spring, then started across the logs towards where we were standing on the trail. We made noise at that point and it got the idea to back off. It went down hill a bit and then crossed by and eventually up to the trail behind us. Marie was still on her way down to us so I followed the bear a bit so I could be close enough to yell to Marie that there’s a bear. It worked out and the bear even ducked off trail a bit. Marie yelled at it and clicked her trekking poles together to shoo it further. It dropped down a bit and Marie joined us by the spring to talk about how cool that was and get some water. Most of the miles today felt harder than they look by the numbers. Like our “downhill to camp” was rocky and slow going. Downhill should be easy and fast. Our campsite is pretty rad though. Good view Northwest.