8/9: Went over Devil's Peak/Pass this eve. Some 18 miles today from Stuart Falls. Not tired - could walk more. My hammock is hung up on a ridge and I can see Klamath Lake & Mt. McLoughlin. Have walked 200 miles on this trip now. Just do that 4 more times and it will be 1,000 miles. 
Enjoyed hiking with and hanging out with Machine for the day, but her pace was faster than mine so she didn't stick around for too long.
This morning I saw a crazy weasel/giant ferret creature (maybe a fisher) that was bounding around me and not afraid a bit. Met Machine, a SoBo who I will probably see again soon.
Stuart Falls, a detour suggested by Weather Carrot...
With some folks I befriended at the falls
7-27: At Dumbell Lake - hiked over 16 miles today...MOSQUITOES! There are mosquito carcasses spread all over my body and my gear. I wore the mosquito net for most of the day. I stopped hiking around 5 pm cuz my knee hurt, my back hurt, my shoulders hurt. Had to keep moving on account of the skeeters. You stop to slap and 3 more bite you. My legs are covered with mosquito bites and the campfire smoke doesn't seem to deter them. And my "10 hr" DEET seems to last for only a half hour. But they can't bite me through me rain jacket and my rain pants and so that's what I'm currently wearing. As it is dusk, skeeters are swarming all over me. I couldn't survive without this mosquito net. Took a lovely swim in the lake...Entrenched in mosquito clouds I was def. questioning my logic behind this trip.
7-30: At Rosary Lakes just a few miles from Williamette Pass/Shelter Cove, my 1st resupply...In the cool eve, I took a most lovely, divine swim in the N. lake. Felt amazing. Oregon lakes are all the perfect temperature. 
Diamond Peak Wilderness...
Mount Thielsen, known as the Lightning Rod of the Cascades
These photos are from my first full day back on the Pacific Crest Trail this summer. I started hiking south at Santiam Pass where I left off the trail in 2008. Above image from July 25th is a view looking south at the Three Sisters volcanoes from the lava in Mt. Washington Wilderness in Oregon.
from journal: 7/25: Looking back North one can see Mt. Washington, then 3-Fingered Jack, then Mt. Jefferson & finally hazy Mt. Hood all lined up into the distance to the horizon.
Pack feels heavy, today my legs are tired. Figured out how to battle heel blisters.
7/26: Lots of snow - with patches taking 25 minutes to cross...Beautiful - reminded me of snow-skiing but a few times I got panicky as I couldn't find where to go across the snow or where to find the trail.
After a brief stint in Vancouver, we greyhounded it to Manning Park arriving about 3:30 AM in the chilly darkness. After eating a can of baked beans and using some pit toilets, the sky began to lighten and so we started to walk. 8 miles south on the trail, we were back in the US. Along the Pacific Crest Trail, we experienced the most spectacular scenery I have ever seen in my life.
Hopkins Lake below - where we camped the night before
handstand!
Ghetto Blaster - highest point on the actual trail in Washington - over 7,000 ft
Fire Belly
not a bad lunch spot
campsite after Rocky Pass
Ah, lupines and more
8-15 - Today we hiked 15 miles to Slate Peak. After a morning argument over the medical industry and western medicine, we got going. Following a tasty dinner of couscous, 4-cheese Mexican soup mix and miso soup at Windy Pass, we watched the pink colors in the sky and saw Mt. Baker. As we got up to Buffalo Pass - the full moon was in full effect and we hiked under its rays across a traverse of Slate Peak which was so gorgeous and so viewful.
full moon rising
Ghetto Blaster with the wind + view
8-16 - went 14 miles from Harts Pass to this rushing Matricon river after Glacier Pass Brush Creek - polenta on the bridge, very hot on the ridges today.
