Dit zijn de afstanden die er per dag gefietst zijn. Dag 4 was de rustdag.Dag 5 en 6 waren de dagen dat we rond hebben gereden in de Veluwe zonder bagage.
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Glacier Peak Wilderness - Day 13
In the morning, we had to wait some time for an available taxi. This was because the driver was busy driving other people to the same trail. At 9 in the morning we would already be her 3rd trip there that day and she told us she typically did that throughout the entire summer. That seemed a lot more convenient than just organizing public transport...
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The lady told us that there would be cell phone coverage at the trailhead, we just had to call her when we were ready to return. As soon as she drove off we noticed neither of us had coverage. We would solve that problem later, first we needed to hike. It was nearly freezing so we were glad to get moving. The hike would be 4.5 miles straight uphill. Even though we had left our heavy packs at the hotel, Diane was having a hard time because she was tired from the past week. It took a lot of effort but eventually we reached a nice lake. It was possible to go up even higher and make it into a 18 mile hike. However, in that case we would had have to camp somewhere and like most places in the US needed a permit to do so.
After taking some photos, we started the descent. This again took several hours and we were glad when it was over. Now we just needed to get back to the Hotel. We decided to start walking down the dirt road hoping we would get phone reception soon. After all, the taxi lady had said it wouldn't be a problem. After about 10 minutes we still didn't have any coverage. I felt bad bringing up hitchhiking again, but it seemed our only option. When a car passed, Diane asked for a ride. Fortunately, it was the same nice family from Oklahoma that we had seen multiple times throughout the hike. The family felt bad for us when Diane explained that we had no coverage, so they agreed to give us a ride and we got in. In general that went pretty well, except that Diane had been so flustered in asking for a ride that she hadn't mentioned where we wanted to go nor asked where the family was going. Fortunately, they were heading roughly in the right direction. We again chatted a bit and they seemed to like us, as they offered to make a small detour to drop us of at our hotel. That worked out really well. Thus far, hitchhiking had made us meet nice people while saving $450.
