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My first thought this morning was "uhhh that's not rain" as I was listening to something tinkle down on my tarp. The rain had frozen in the trees above and was falling down as ice.
And then it started snowing. Not sticking but it was still snowing. And cold.
Beautiful.
The snow was sticking above 6500 feet.
Visibility was coming and going all morning. That's Canada right over there. Can't see it but it's there.
Apple on the last up before the border.
Hopkins lake.
There were 30 blow downs in the last 2 miles. None of them were too bad at least.
Canada!
People cheered us in. We even met some new people at the monument. Echo was there. And cheesy mama. And a few others we had met along the way. But the majority of everyone we've met are all behind, with bad weather rolling in for the next week. Glad I'm not them.
Wow, we really did it. That was a lot of walking.
Reading the register.
Canada!!!
Still have another eight miles to do to get to a road. That's okay, it feels like nothing, I feel very floaty and fairly relieved. I really made it!
Woohooo! Canada! Looks the same as Washington but feels different and the squirrels seem a bit more vocal, maybe they are cheering.
it started raining but I didn't care. Only a few miles to 4 walls, central heating, showers and dry clothes.
Very surreal.
The lodge is at the end of the rainbow! haha!
Can't believe I won't get up and walk tomorrow!
Showered in the pool room of the lodge. No soap, oh well. Only took one shower in Washington so it feels great. The lodge is booked full for the night and the bus to Vancouver at 2 am is also full. So we are sleeping down stairs in the lodge on the game room floor with a few other hikers. We walked across the highway to a lost and found type hikerbox where the lodge puts all the things left behind in the hotel rooms. Its a little building they call the free store. All kinds of clothes and stuff. I found some jeans and shirt and a fleece jacket to change into.
I ran into the manager back at the lodge and we started talking and he offered em and me a ride with one of the lodge workers into Hope, a town 45 minutes closer to Vancouver where we would have an easier time hitching (the buses in from hope are full tomorrow too). I've learned so much from trail, but one of the biggest lessons is that things always work out. Wonderful, wonderful day.
