Friday, March 31, 2006

Well, we didn't get flooded out that night, so I was happy. But the next day we were just about to head off when I saw a black bear running a cross the river in our direction. I tapped my friend on the shoulder. Lets just say we made record time on leaving the camp. So for about the first two hours of the trail I was freaked out that the bear was going to find us. I have been camping for my whole life and have not seen a bear, or come close to one. You keep telling yourself there out there, but you sort of think they aren't when you've been camping so much and not seen one. We did come across one on the Skyline trail, but still I did not see them. Anyway, the next camp was Wolverine Campground. Wolverine is 141.2 km's from the start and is 11.1 km's from Chown Creek Campground. The trail to the camp was alot of up hill. The trail had been wiped out in several places due to avalanches. So we had to weave around trees and rocks, little creeks and mud. It was very challenging to find the trail through all the debris. There was this cool bridge we got to cross. It was a wood bridge with a ladder at the end of it. It was quite hard to climb it. After not climbing stairs for several days and walking with a backpack on, makes it a little weird to climb. Since I climb ladders all day long for my job, I was pretty suprise by how hard it was. It took alot of effort. Near the middle of the day it started to sprinkle rain then it started to downright rain pretty hard. We were soaked and cold. It was the first day we got rained on. We got to an area that looked like the campground. It had a sign that was hard to read. It said this was the camp but it was written in felt. We decided to stay cause my friend was really cold. So I set up the tent and all the gear inside, made her change into dry clothes and put my down booties on her. So we layed in the tent in our down bags to try and get warm. We had a nap and I got up to dry our clothes off. The sun had come out just long enough to dry everything. That's when I made supper. There was this awesome stump that was perfect for cooking on. Thankfully the misquitos weren't very bad there. We had also saw a man and a women who were apparently following our tracks for several days. The first people we had seen in 9 days. The next day we found the real camp. It was probably a km away from where we were. Thats where the man and women must have stayed because they kept going past where we were. We never did see them agian.

1 Comments:

Blogger Charlene said...

Ah, yes not seeing people for 9 days, it was a little freaky not having anyone else around but that was one of the best parts of the trail. Solitude. I'd almost do it again for that reason but then I keep thinking about the mosquito's and yeah, makes me not want to.

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