Saturday, September 20, 2008

Zero Day 39 - Snoqualmie

My mom and I picked up some beers, sodas, made Rice Krispie Treats, grabbed a box of king sized Snickers, boiled hot water, grabbed some tea and hot cocoa, then headed for the pass after picking up our family friend, Barb. I got to the Family Pancake House, but no one I was hiking with was there, but Squatch was, so we were seated next to him and we chatted it up with him. Looks like the section I missed was a bad one, so I guess I didn't miss much.

Eventually, Edelweiss and Mr. President appeared, and come to find out Fire Wizard was sitting in the restaurant the whole time. Jammer is back on trail as well! and he came into the restaurant. My mom and I went to the lobby of the motel, got a couple of rooms for the five of us to share, then my mom and Barb bid their farewells (after dropping off the supplies). After sitting in the restaurant for a little while longer, Forager, Dr. Dirtbag and Princess Magic Hands (PMH) showed up, and are going to crash in our rooms. I was getting concerned that we didn't know where Bert was, but I was fairly confident he would show up, which he did, but got his own room.

After a bit I decided to go into the hot tub, which was nice. It's been raining, and the temperature is dropping, and I can feel it in my knees (ACL replacement = royally suck!) We then had one last dinner, to which I felt like I was going to almost throw up. The smell of the celery in my salad just turned my stomach, which is odd since that had never happened before. I've never cared for celery anyway.

Got back to the room I would be staying in, watched a movie on t.v., then tried to sleep (it was midnight at this point). Our rooms were conjoined, so there were eight people in two rooms, six of them milling about. I was trying to sleep and was getting nowhere, so I jumped out of bed, and went to Bert's room. I asked if I could bunk with him, which he was cool with. We watched some reruns of Almost Live and did a crossword together, then it was time for me to pass out.

2 comments:

Dicentra said...

Go go go!!! You're almost there! :)

MountainJedi said...

Yo Wingit, this is Bobcat. I write from Stehekin, WA, at the bottom of the northermost section. Sucks to read that your feet have been pretty much falling apart and that you have difficulty keeping motivated. Seems the same happened to Ms. Potatohead and Good Times according to their journal. Well dude I made it every single step to Crater Lake and now have been southbounding from Manning Park with hopes to make it back down to Crater Lake weather permitting so if you stay on trail I imagine we'll cross paths and can share some encouragement. Seems that a ton of people have gotten off trail for whatever reason. In any case, there is some more spectacular terrain up here to enjoy if you make it this far, so good luck and enjoy the experience while it lasts. All the best, Bobcat Flying south for the winter = )