Day 95, part 1

Mile 1497.5 to 1501.7

PCT Miles: 4.2 (6.7km)

Total Miles: 1501.7 (2402.7km)

Before sleeping yesterday, I had internet connection so I could successfully arrange a ride to Mount Shasta at 8am today. This is the first step in order to go around the fire. The next one is to find a more difficult ride: from Mount Shasta to Seiad Valley.

With that, I’m officially skipping my first PCT miles: 155.3 miles in total. Shelly fire, this is for you 🖕!

I arrived at the trailhead at 7:20am and my ride was already there. Doc told me he does this for a few years now and last year alone he gave rides for more than 1400 hikers!

He also had cookies, bananas and chips. Doritos for pre-breakfast? Why not?

We waited twenty minutes for a group of hikers that Doc was also going to bring to town. Everything was ahead of schedule and by 8am I was already ordering my mushroom breakfast burrito with peanut butter latte in town. I devoured my food while charging my devices!

While charging, I was lucky enough to find another trail angel on the internet, Beth, who was going to pickup a hiker on a trailhead further north and bring to Seiad Valley — exactly where I wanted to be! She agreed to pick me up at 1pm, so I had a few hours to kill in Mount Shasta. I went to a nice coffee shop, updated myself about the wildfires around, uploaded the last Polarsteps posts and had a whole pint of Ben and Jerry’s!