Day 135 9/27 3.5mi.

Chatterbox, Dr. Huss, and I got up and started moving by about 7 in order to catch a bus into the town of Stehekin, Washington. We got to the bus stop almost an hour early as it picks up at 9, as we sat there more and more hikers kept showing up. By the time the bus came there were 17 hikers ready to board! We didn't realize how many people were around us.

Stehekin is a town only accessible by float plane, boat, or hiking. It is located on the north side of a huge lake, the lake has huge mountains rising steeply out of the water on the east and west sides. There are about 80 residents and only one main road and a couple small side roads. The vehicles all get acoss the lake on a barge type thing, which is pushed by a boat.

The bus picked us up about 10 miles out of town and stopped at a bakery on the way in. All the hikers got off at the bakery, any time we told someone along the trail we were headed to Stehekin they said we had better go to the bakery. Everyone was looking forward to it and the bakery lived up to all the hype, it was the best bakery we have ever been to!!!

After loading up on pastries at the bakery we decided to walk the two miles into the main part of town. Along the way we stopped at a placed called The Garden where an older man geows tons of organic vegtables and fruit, he also had honey and goat chesse and yogurt. We got lots of fresh fruit and I asked for a carrot so he went out to the field and picked me one right out of the ground! We continued our walk into town along the lake and stopped near a dock where Dr. Huss and I dove in.

We made it town to the maon part of town, grabbed our resupply packages from the tiny post office and sat in front of the little store and restaurant overlooking the lake and got our packs organized along with about 20 other hikers, we kinda took over the town. The only way to contact the outside world was via a satellite phone provided by the park service, the town is right along side North Cascades National Park, there is usually a line for the one phone between the locals driving in to make a call and all the hikers.

The guy we've been hiking with father booked us a room at the lodge so we got all clean up then went for a great meal, hung out for a bit and called it a night.