[pct-l] Mt Hood to Eagle Creek Hike (with pics)

[Terry Griffin]

On Friday 07 July 2006 3:40 am, Steel-Eye wrote:
> [snip]
>
> On the 4th I did a training hike on the PCT totaling something over 22
> miles out-and-back, and mid-PM I was returning east toward Timberline
> crossing snowpack very similar to Deems' photo.  The PCT was easy enough to
> piece together, but many of the local trails around the lodge, and their
> signs, were buried.  Almost within sight of the ski lifts I met a couple of
> tourist hikers, and greeted them.
>
> Me:  "So, you're off on a big hike today?"
>
> He:  "We sure are.  Say, can you tell me where this trail goes?"
>
> Me:  "If you keep going this direction you'll get to Canada, and if you
> turn around and go the other way you will get to Mexico."
>
> [snip]
>

Spooky. I was hiking the same spot on the 3rd and had a nearly identical
conversation with a tourist couple. Ghosts perhaps? Stuck for an eternity
on a small section of the PCT near Timberline, not knowing where the trail
goes.

Terry