Day 115- stehekin

I slept in a ditch last night with my tent draped over a branch to account for any condensation. I can't say it was the most comfortable spot but I ended up sleeping pretty good. So good that I slept longer than I was planning on. I didn't even wake up until 7. This left me scrambling to get on the trail by at least 730 and made getting to stehekin by lunch a lost cause. Either way I packed up and began the all downhill day. My only food until stehekin was a few candies walnuts. I rationed them carefully and supplemented them with huckleberries. Still I was extremely hungry by the time I had dropped 4000 feet in 17 miles to the stehekin river. At least after I crossed high bridge I ran into two section hikers who were going in to stehekin and had way too much food. I got some dried fruit, nuts, and beef jerky from them until I could get in to town. We waited for the 11 mile shuttle up at the campground while getting destroyed by flies. The shuttle arrived and we all hoped on. It made many stops in the 11 miles causing it to take over an hour to get into the town. But the driver was nice enough to stop at the bakery for me and fellow hiker blister to get some good food. I got a giant cinnamon roll, a piece of strawberry rhubarb pie, giant bowl of ice cream, and a root beer. It would tide me over. At one of the stops a man, a woman, and a little girl resembling my family came up to the bus. Turns out it was them and they asked me in front of the full bus if I wanted to to go fishing with them. I said no due to the dirty tired state I was in after a 14 day grind through washington that has nearly destroyed my body. Only 88.8 miles left to complete the journey. I got all my town chores done and got my blog all updated. I'll try to put up a couple pictures tomorrow. Then as a family we ate a wonderful but very spendy meal at the only restaurant in stehekin and followed that by sleeping under the stars at my ten year old sister's request. Tomorrow I will organize the food they brought me and hopefully hike out mid day with my dad. He is going to hike this last section with me and I'm very excited to get to do a little lower mileage. But don't worry he took his training very seriously and I'm sure will be cranking out near 20 mile days. I told him what ever he wants to do mile wise as long as I don't run out of food again.