1982: The Pasaytan Loop, page 20
September 19, 1982
Sunday, 4:15 PM
Harts Pass
The sheep were still grazing near Baron.
Ranger Linda is gone! The station is locked up for the season. That turd – she was supposed to have been here for one more day! Crap. I had been looking forward to having tea with her tonight.
It is her loss actually, because I am going to have dinner instead with another PCT through-hiker, Ron. He has set up camp nearby and was markedly interested in my pudding supply. He knew about Don and Larry and was pleased to hear that they had made it through and were probably out by now.
Holy cow, the mosquitoes are really bad tonight! It's going to take several more nights of heavy freezes before the little bloodsuckers finally die out. And it won't be soon enough!
We left the lakes this morning at about 8:45 AM – an early start for us. Prior to merging with the Pacific Crest Trail we met a woman in the meadow down by Goat Basin. She was with a group camped by the spring just off the trail and said they had started in at Stevens Pass. I wished her well and headed down the trail to Holman Pass. I still do not have any fond memories of that place! Even in the nice weather it is woodsy and uninviting.
Lunch break at Buffalo Basin.
Micki and I stopped briefly for a light lunch in Buffalo Basin – a handful of Gorp for me and a handful of dog food for the mutt. It was starting to get overcast and I thought to myself, how appropriate…let's end the hike the same way we started! But the temperatures were too warm for snow, so that wasn't going to happen.
It was a pretty uneventful day, hiking along the trail under partly cloudy skies. We rolled along comfortably and eventually saw the welcoming strip that was the road leading to Harts Pass in the distance. Funny, when we started off it had seemed such a violent intrusion into the wilderness; now it was a welcome beacon to the way home.
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