Feeling like a scolded teenage girl...

No, by feeling, I don't mean I feel like I need to get one... I meant my inner self was experiencing the emotions of one. What the hell am I on about? Well, when teenagers, particularly girls, get scolded by their parents, I am told the removal of cell phone use is one effective punishment... Yes, i reckon it is...So yeah, I had no phone, that's what I'm waffling on about! Well, no iPhone to be precise! Yeah, I know! Shock, horror!!
And that is why there is a gap in the update regularity to this blog..

To properly explain... With low-on-power devices, Tom & I reached the trailhead, 1.2 miles from Mazama Village & were met by Stacie, who gave us a ride to the store & campsite. Unfortunately, our resupply parcel hadn't arrived, plus the campsite was $30-odd a night, so we ended up not staying there, but back at the nice, peaceful & free but powerless trailhead.
Stacie offered to charge up our devices the next morning as we hiked up & around Crater Lake, then meet us along the way to pass them back. That was the plan anyway... Somehow we kept missing each other, so I had to resign myself to the fall-back plan of meeting up at the end of the day, where we were going to camp, just past the trailhead at Hwy 58. That ALSO was the plan... But that went pear-shaped too;
The PCT carpark & camping area (where Stacie, Will & Christa were set up waiting for us) was not where the actual trail crosses the highway, so the info they got from a poorly knowledged ranger, saying it was, was not so good.

Tom & I headed off from our campsite the next morning not realizing the other guys were probably less than 300 yards away from us through the forest... We hiked on for a few hours emerging at another trailhead to find a note from Stacie pinned to a signboard... So we were pleased to know they were all ok...
Leaving a note in return we hiked on for another day finally meeting up with her at another highway the following morning... 2 days without my iPhone was hard, but I survived!

I didn't get to take any pix of Crater Lake on my iPhone but Stacie did, so she has emailed them to me... I stitched them & the panoramic pic will be posted shortly...

Cheers!
RWK
BACK IN COMMUNICATION.