Well, today was going to be a long cranking day... & it was, although not as bad as expected. We made good time, covering 27 miles in less than 10 hours of moving.
Due to a lack of water on the trail, we pushed harder to make the miles to Crater Lake, and have got here Wednesday night, not Thursday morning, as planned. Having water only for the first few miles, we faced being dry the rest of the day. Rather than carry 4+ liters for most of the day (to have enough to cook with & drink in the evening, as well as for the next morning), we felt it better to carry enough for lunch & enough to drink whilst walking, & end the day at Mazama Village campsite near Crater Lake.
After a great warm night high on a ridge, complete with gorgeous sunset, we got going early by 6.30 in the morning with a rough rocky climb up to 7200 feet, the high point for the day. Cresting a gap in the ridge, we turned to face north & had a great view of the mountains in the early morning mist ahead of us... So plenty of pix were taken, one of which is posted above.
Crater Lake is supposed to be fantastic too, so I will be posting more from the trail soon, I'm sure. It's now the end of the day, around 5.30 pm & we are stopped at the roadside at the moment, waiting for our awesome friend Stacy to meet us and run us the 1.2 miles off trail down to the campsite. Tomorrow, having collected our resupply box from the store there, we'll hit the trail up and around the lake.
Cheers for now..!
RWK.
Out.
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