Category: USA

Ok, sorry, I lied about last night being out last encounter with hiker/biker site thieves. No, last night’s guys didn’t come back, this was a guy whose tent had already been set up here for a couple nights, but who we hadn’t seen. This morning, I finally see him, and he’s packing up to leave.…

Day 5 We moved yesterday’s early wakeup time 30 minutes earlier, to 4:30am. That allowed us to get to the shuttle bus stop at 6:30am. There was already enough of a line that we didn’t get on the first shuttle at 7am, but we just fit on the second around 7:15am. That means we hit…

Day 4 A couple days ago, on our first day at the C-loop hiker/biker site, we met two other legit cycling pairs, both doing a cross-country west-to-east. The first two were from Portland, young and dumb and unprepared, with one of them riding a skinny-tired road bike whose lowest gear (30-23) is what Rett would…

Day 2 We woke to another form of hiker/biker site crime. I had seen that all four slots at our A-loop site had been reserved for last night. Yet, we were the only souls present for the day and night. Since you can only book the sites 1 day in advance, did this mean 3-to-6…

Yesterday afternoon when we turned up to the hiker/biker site at Sprague Creek, the three tent pads were already taken: one clearly by (absent) bike tourers (who had the same tent and chairs as we did), one by unknown (absent) maybe day-hikers, and one by two sullen, uncommunicative girls in a giant Coleman tent who…