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Day 129: Goat Rocks and Wildlife Failures

farawayflyer / September 15, 2015

It was cold and damp first thing, and I’m getting to know that this is the new normal now we’re in Washington. I walked extra quietly through the forest listening for elk since hearing Andy say yesterday he’d seen fifty before breakfast. No elk. After a very short flat section, we started to climb up towards Cispus Pass and I…

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