We saw some elk the next day while hiking through the dusty trail. We walked through some beautiful lava flow and checked out a sweet observation tower- Dee Wright Observatory- which has cool peep holes through the lava rock to see all the mountains surrounding the area. We did about 18.5 miles past Small Lake.
There are a lot of weekenders heading back to civilization. We walked past Middle and Small Sister. Our legs are tired. We ate lunch at Obsidian Falls, walked some more until dinner at a small creek. Once full, we started to pack up and heard some thunder. We went around the corner to Wickiup Plain and saw intensely dark clouds and lightening. We quickly found some trees and set up camp- definitely our best pitching job. Luckily it passed by with just some small sprinkles.
Up and out of camp by 7:30am with a little bit of sprinkles as we made our way to Sisters Mirror Lake. The rain has been good for the dusty trail. Yay! We met Ray Estrella (he tests backpacking gear). There hasn't been tons of views and its quite flat. We did a total of 22 miles today... About 1295 trip total.
Left camp around 7:11am. Flat day with cold wind. We did 12 miles by 12pm, ate some lunch and got water at Charlton Lake while chatting with some weekenders from Eugene. It started to sprinkle so we headed on. Just when we needed to eat dinner we ran into La Contessa (Kim) and Zombie (Fred). Fred gave Dangit a new name of Lady Darnetta. :) Kim calls Dangit Darnette. We hiked another 2 miles and made camp.
We woke up in the dark to some rain. Once light enough we packed up... It started to flood under our tarp. 11 miles and we made it to Shelter Cove!! Food!!! And we get to split a cabin with Fred and Kim!
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