After a surprisingly warm night, we started to pack out when Banjo passed us. He was trying to go all the way to High Bridge, 28 miles further. If he’d get there by 18:00, he will be able to get the shuttle into Stehekin. If not, he’d camp there until tomorrow morning.

Wow. The third hard day in a row. Today we’ve hiked almost as much as yesterday, with almost as much climbing, and much more down hill. It was tiring.

This is definitely the hardest section in Washington. The original plan today was to complete the two miles we didn’t do yesterday, and then do about 23 more, with a lot of climbing in between.

That was a long and hard day.

I got up at 6:30, and already almost everyone else was gone. Banjo was still inside his hammock when I left an hour later.