Today I did absolutely nothing. I spent the day listening to music, playing Magic on my phone, drinking warm coffee, eating a veggie bowl for lunch, eating 3 burritos for dinner and planning for the next days on the mountains.

I can feel that my knee is not 100% but I can’t wait much longer. Staying here at the THC is one of the known vortexes on the PCT (which is any enjoyable place that pulls the hiker away from trail and makes it difficult for the hiker to come back). Here it feels like we’re in a vacation from

our PCT. A completely different reality of when we’re on trail. Warm showers, flush toilets, food of all kinds, filtered water, socialization, energy and internet. Pure luxury!

At the end of the afternoon we all here had a nice surprise: it was the hostel’s 10th year anniversary. There was (a lot of) cake, cookies and pie for everybody. I went to sleep as full as you can get!

Everything charged, backpack fully packed, equipment repaired! Tomorrow we go back to trail!