I woke this morning to a quiet camp. Nobody was around. I slept so well and felt completely refreshed after such a long day. I left around 7 and started the long 7 mile slog to town. We were on roads the whole time. I didn’t really enjoy it. My feet hurt from the hard surface.

I made it to town by 9 and had breakfast at the cafe. I had to wait till 12 for the post office to open. I met up with Mango and Slice again which was nice. There were so many hikers there. After I got my package I walked down to Wildwood cafe and hung with mango and slice and charged and used WiFi and eventually ordered food. I had a blackberry milkshake earlier and then got a chocolate caramel one here. I hung for a long time. The place was packed with hikers.

I met a new man, Breezy. He said he wanted to do the road walk alternate and we agreed to leave together. The trail had another 5 miles or overgrowth and burn area and I had no desire to do it. Especially with all the poison oak. So we walked the 12 miles on forest roads instead. It was much better. I learned that Breezy runs a whiskey bar in Portland. We had a nice chat. At one point two pit bulls ran out of someone’s house and chased us. One was massive. We fumbled for our poles and yelled at them and they didn’t come all the way at us. Their owner climbed up, holding onto poison oak to pull herself up the hill, and called them away. It was eventful.

We rolled into camp around 10pm. 21 miles to Oregon! Last night in CA!