Pacific Crest Trail treks

   Morgen Glessing of Woodland last reported in on Aug. 21, when resupplying at Stevens Pass in northern Washington. That was 2,465 miles down and fewer than 180 miles to Canada.

“The fires in northern Washington are threatening the end of the trail,’’ he wrote. “This is frustrating especially since I was planning on being done in less than a week from now and was very anxious to complete my adventure soon. My current plan is to wait a few days here and see what progresses, and if nothing improves, I may look into other ways of walking to the monument on the Canadian border.’’

     Anthony Mannello of Vancouver resumed his hike after taking a break.

“It was harder than I thought to get back into the groove of hiking,’’ he wrote. “I seem to have shocked my system and the results were lack of motivation and energy…But soon enough it was life as unusual.’’

His trip through Mount Adams and Goat Rocks wildernesses were smoky adventures.

At Mount Adams, “The trees were interlaced with haze and ash was falling all around. Wind had shifted overnight and I was seemingly too close to the blaze. I kept moving to get farther away from the fire and the views were eerily spectacular.’’

“With my new world of fire, I continued through the Goat Rocks Wilderness, a major highlight of the PCT. Unfortunately, they too were choked by the smoke.’’

At Snoqualmie Pass, Mannello left the PCT to visit friends in Seattle, then attend a wedding, hoping that rainy weather might reopen the closed stretch of the trail near Canada.