Yesterday after the Freund canyon ride I treated myself to an ice cream cone and later a beer. Then I drove out to Lake Wenatchee SP for a shower and then up Chiwawa river road up Chikamin road. I remember finding berries @ 3000′ or so on my ride there several days ago. I stopped just past where the trail kissed the road and walked into the woods. I found berries but nowhere near the quantity and quality that I found on the other trail. I picked enough for Bfast but not enough for a larder. Next idea was to drive to the upper TH and hike down on the other trail. The road kept going up on a single lane gravel road.
The road dead ended and I camped. Tonight I will have a view of the sky that had been missing; however I was in the shade of a ridge blocking out tomorrow Am sun. Cold clear night. At 7:00 AM it was 37 degrees and I was cold. The sun created the ridge about 9:00 and I set out to check out berries where I was camped. Wow! I scored w/o hiking. I now have about 2 1/2 sandwich baggies of frozen berries. This is special as I had none last year because of my travels and the year before in greater Spokane there were none. Blueberry pancakes for Bfast!
Pot score fell thru as my man told me he was an hour late getting to his connection and by then the cops had busted the connection. Moving on.
Got my hair cut and beard trimmed in Leavenworth.
Plan now is to drive up Entiat River to ride Cathedral Peak. Might see where I spent almost 2 weeks back in ’70 fighting a forest fire.
Cooler temps are much enjoyed.