{"id":1588,"date":"2017-10-17T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.walkingfromthelaw.com\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2023-02-18T22:06:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T22:06:25","slug":"day-123-124-trout-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingfromthelaw.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/17\/day-123-124-trout-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 123 & 124:\u00a0Trout Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date: August 10 & 11, 2017
\nMiles: 2190.5\u00a0<\/span>– 2233.5<\/p>\n

This morning started in the lush green, quiet forest that reminds me of childhood camping trips, with a vintage glow from the rising sun through tree branches and the smell of dry evergreen incense.<\/p>\n

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We passed into the Indian Heaven Wilderness in the afternoon and took a short side trail to a campsite on the eastern shore of Steamboat Lake.<\/p>\n

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The next morning, we hiked out to Forest Road 23 to hitch a ride in to Trout Lake.<\/p>\n

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A huge hiker box, courtesy of the Trout Lake Abbey, a nearby Buddhist monastery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It took a while to get a ride in. \u00a0While we were waiting to flag down a car headed in the right direction, a couple headed the other way stopped and gave us water, fruit and yogurt. \u00a0They asked us a bunch of questions about the trail and we had a lovely conversation. \u00a0After about 20 minutes, we caught a ride and made it in to town in time for breakfast.<\/p>\n

We loitered in front of the grocery store for a good part of the day, sorting through our resupply boxes, startling regular customers with our disheveled appearances, and eating.<\/p>\n

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Taking a chance on a mystery powder from the hiker box.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another method of hiker messaging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This little guy helped us with our resupply. And by help, I mean he drooled on our boxes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We grabbed a ride back to the trail from Gary, a retired forest service employee who spends his free time being a trail angel and ferrying dirty hikers all over the place. Without people like Gary, life would be much harder for us.<\/p>\n

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A couch in the truck bed! Genius.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We hiked about 7 miles through the Mt. Adams Wilderness and camped in an open area at the top of the hill we were climbing.<\/p>\n

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We had a beautiful view of the sunset on one side of us and Mt. Adams on the other.<\/p>\n

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We had the usual ramen dinners and then headed for our tents. There were a few dark clouds that appeared quickly, so we all battened down the hatches in case of rain. A few minutes later we heard Fluffy utter a couple profanities and then exclaim that he accidentally dropped 100 small sewing needles in his tent and could only find 21 of them. While I was laughing so hard I cried, a HUGE thunderstorm erupted to the south of us and we excitedly\/nervously waited it out as rain poured down on us and the lightning and thunder passed over us and on out to the East and West. My heart was pounding. I love thunderstorms but I\u2019m usually not IN them. Short bursts of lightning and faded rolls of thunder continued from the distance as I closed my eyes and went to sleep.<\/p>\n

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