One of John's photos from the Goat Rocks Wilderness.

 Who's on the Pacific Crest Trail

John, my hiking partner on the recent hike kept track. Here's his day-to-day head count and some other interesting observations of hiker origins, what hikes they were taking and what they carried. The photos are some that he took in the Goat Rocks Wilderness before we met up on the trail.

Hiker Count           Males              Couples         Females

Mon 8/25                     15                          3                    1

Tues 8/26                     18                          4                    3

Wed 8/27                     23                          8                    2

Thur 8/28                     24                          9                    1

Fri 8/29 am                    2

Sunday 8/31                   9                          4                    5

Monday 9/1                  43                          8                  14

Tuesday  9/2                 11                          1                    2

Wednesday 9/3               5                          1                    1

Thursday 9/4                13                          4                    5

        

Mount Rainier in the distance.

Hikers' Trail Names

The A Team

Arizona

Big Boots

Bomber (Cincinnatti) w/ brother

The Captain

Coppertone (Trail Angel; root beer floats)

Dang It

Doc

Dozen

Ferd

Glider

Granny Candy

JuliAngelo

Lady MacGyver

Lighthouse

Lumber

The Machine

The Optimist

Ouzel

Peanut

Pinecone

Pisa

Pooh Bear

Rohrschach

Short Step

Silver Fox

Smiley

So-Go

Sprinkle

T-Bow (Tenacious Rainbow)

Thistle

Two Feathers

Veggie Gourmet

Uber-Dude

The Walking Pepper

Whiskey

Windsong

The Zone

Some rugged country in the Goat Rocks.

Hikes

south of Indian Heaven to White Pass

Timberline Lodge to Paradise

North Bend via Goldmeyer Hot Springs to PCT to Cascade Locks

California Coast Trail, continuation

Panther Creek to Stevens Pass

Some odd rocks in the Goat Rocks.

Origins

Belgium (Bruges)

Canada (Vancouver, Manitoba, Toronto, Montreal)

England (Blackpool, North Yorkshire)

Germany (Bavaria, Norden, Stuttgart)

Israel (3)

Italy

South Africa (Capetown)

Spain

Switzerland (Zurich)

California

Illinois

Kentucky

Missouri

Ohio

Oregon (Portland)

Washington (Bremerton, Seattle, Vancouver)

Goat Rocks Wilderness is  one of my favorite places. Seeing these photos, I wish I had repeated the journey through them.

Items carried

American flag

nosegay (mini-bouquet in shirt pocket) (male hiker)

pinwheel

mini-banjo

mini-guitar (2)

ukulele

didgeridoo