Continued from Day 60, Part 1
Photo 7. I hiked by a lovely lake called Deception Lake and part of me wishes I were camping there instead of trying to make it to Stevens Pass tomorrow. I soothed myself by imagining my friend Barbara and her sister Anita and her dog Angel camping there. Arriving early, by 5 or so, relaxing, enjoying the lake both in the evening and the morning. It gave me pleasure to imagine her there, so much so that I missed a turn in the trail and had to hike around and find it again!
I was also thinking about the ripples on a lake as little waves. That maybe it doesn't always have to be a great big wave that one rides. Sometimes the slightest subtlest ripples will do ( like those moments that I am so still and do present that my breath seems to barely move, barely disturb the air around me). So I chose the ripples on this lake for Bonnie's wave of the day.
Photo 8: and then of course I was glad to be River and not Barbara as the trail led up to one of the most wonderful high mountain view trails I have walked on the whole PCT. I was so happy to be there. Another reason I hiked it was that the cell coverage report said there would be coverage at the pass at the top. (There was not.)
Photo 9: looking back at Cathedral peak. We hiked by it when I was hiking with Flash in late morning but none of my photos turned out very well.
Photo 10. This hiker and I crossed on the trail, she was hiking down, I was hiking up. "Don't I know you?" She said. Turns out she thru hiked in 2014 and we met in the spring (when I hiked down from Walker Pass near Bakersfield to the trail angel house "ziggy and the bear" near Palm Springs. She remembered that we camped together by a creek, that we had the same tent but that I was planning to get a new one for my Wonderland hike. She is a nurse practitioner who works with traumatized vets.
Photo 11. The stunning view from this very special section of trail
Photo 12:after the pass,hiking down. Also beautiful.
To be continued in Day 60, part 3.
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