PCT Day 91 - Mount Jefferson

Oregon is getting better just in time as we were beginning to have low spirits. The skeeters have been lighter the last couple days and the scenery is changing as well. We are ascending and descending ridges. We’ve spent the last 2 days approaching Mount Jefferson and today we walked beside it and was able to see it up close. The day was hard on our bodies and we didn’t get many miles as we’d hoped for.

There was a lot of action today; we crossed two raging creeks. The first was from a a glacier that we walked across, I held my breath as doing so. I could see it cracking and giving way and being rushed down stream. The second was also glacier fed but from far above on Mt Jeff. This raging creek was deep and very dangerous. We must have scaled the boulders for some time trying to find the right crossing point. Finally we both made it across dry. There was apparently a skeleton of a horse down stream- a mounted hiker tried to cross the stream last year, her horse broke it’s leg and she had to be airlifted out leaving her horse to die. :( We also saw many of our friends from the Desert section who flipped up and are hiking south- Rooster, Smash, Cricket, Dip and Sia! We crossed creeks, burned areas, snow and boulder fields. There was so much incline today we couldn’t reach our 30 mile goal as planned. But 24.5 ain’t bad!

We reached the halfway point of our hike today!