Day 15- mamacita

Trail angels are people that are overly kind and assist hikers on the trail. It is a much more pertinent term to some of the long distance trails that have more people such as the Appalachian trail and the pacific crest trail. But knowing first hand from my pacific crest trail through hike, they are amazing and really help at the most critical times. I received word there was a trail angel named mamacita near the place I was resupplying at and decided to give her a call and she gave me a place to stay, a shower, washing of my clothes, and even food. It was amazing and she even gave me a ride back up to the trail. But today would not have happen if I had not made it over the intense swift creek. I decided I would walk upstream until I felt comfortable crossing. It took 150 yards and a half hour of boulder jumping, blackberry fighting, bushwhacking and stream swimming. In the end I found a safe spot and went for it without a problem. From there I hiked the last 9 miles to the highway and down to the forest service road and hitchhiked on into glacier then back to the valley where mamacita picked me up. I have now done 425 of the 1200 miles!