Day 16- into the wild

Today was a good day. I woke up early at mamacita's house and was greater by a nice cup of coffee. From here I packed up and she made me a wonderful scramble with eggs and pepper from right in her backyard! Then we took me back to the trail and dropped me off. I walked along paved roads ten gravel roads and then finally made it to some trail again. I climbed up for quite a was over hannegan pass and then swiftly dropped thousands of feet into the next valley around the Chilliwack river. I walked along and soon I came to a cable car. There was a cable across the river and a looped rope that ran through a basket. You are supposed to sit and put your stuff in the basket and pull yourself across the river to the other side. It was very interesting. I turned here we began to follow brush creek up to whatcom pass. As I was walking along the creek all of a sudden I saw a piece of bark fall and looked up to see two bear cubs climbing the tree. I was pretty the momma ear was further up the tree but I couldn't see her. Since I had about 100 pounds on each of the cubs I decided not to wrestle them and just snapped a couple pictures and moved on. I made it up and over whatcom pass and down the other side were the trail is very overgrown and my legs ended up getting pretty scratched up. Even so I got in 27 miles in the north cascades and am very glad I finally got to see some bear.