Day 130 9/22 8.5mi.

We woke up to a strong but short wind storm, it started raining pine needles, it was 6 when the wind woke us up so we just started our morning then. We got moving quick and walked 4.5 miles up the backside of a ski mountain and then back down the front side of the ski hill to a large highway.

While standing there hitching tons of empty mini vans and trucks passed without stopping. But finally a woman with two children a huge dog and tons of luggage stopped and rearranged her whole mini van to squish the three of us in there. They were headed to Seattle for awhile to get out of the smoke their town was clouded in.

We got down to the tiny town of Baring by about 9:30 and all got big cups of coffee and some breakfast from the only building in town, it was a combined cafe, store, and post office.

Then we headed a quarter mile to the Dinsmore's place, trail angels, the first thing we did was shower and get our laundry going. When we arrived there were about 10 other hikers there and more kept coming in throughout the day. They said that today was the most hikers they've had at once.

After resupplying and catching up with other hikers we headed back to the main road to start hitch hiking. After about a half hour a pickup with a camper on the back passed by then turned around and came back to pick us up. Dr. Huss, Chatterbox and I got back to the trail at about 6 and hiked the 4 miles to the first campsite.