Rain, rain, rain. We heard Shredder leaving at 4:30am so that he'd make the 9am shuttle bus to Stehekin. We got up at 7am, packed up our soaking wet tent and hiked the 9 miles to High Point and waited for the 12:30 bus. There's no shelter at the bus stop so we made videos under our umbrellas to keep warm. I'll eventually update the photo and video sections once we finish the trip.
The bus finally arrived and the first stop is a bakery! Guess who came out of the bakery? Smiles and Slosh our first trail friends. Fifty dollars of bakery goods later, T and I sat on the bus and caught up with them and other hikers.
We arrived at Stehekin landing and confirmed there was no internet or cell reception. Lots of hikers were leaving the trail, the rain and snow reports were not good and there was a rumour that the northern part of the PCT had been closed. We decided we needed to find our for ourselves. So we got on the 2pm ferry down Lake Chelan and booked into the Apple Inn Motel along with Smiles, Slosh, TRex and Rocky where we checked weather reports and formulated a plan.
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