42 MILES, 4 PASSES IN 3 DAYS: Day 1

It's 12 pm at work and 2 o'clock (work day 6-2) can't come fast enough!! Especially when it becomes 3 pm and my car key finally turns the ignition. It's finally time to leave work and well... head back home. I forgot my camera....bummer!! There's no way I'm leaving my camera at home for an epic adventure of catastrophic proportions!! Good catastrophic proportions!!! Well that's what it felt like to me. I'd never backpacked for more than 30 miles consecutively and tonight will start me on my 42 mile backpacking t rip.

My Campsite for Thursday night

My camera is now in my possession and Port Angeles is on my iPhone's GPS as I'm running two hours late. So far not good, but my trip has to get better!!! As i turn right onto Deer Park road, which leads right to the trailhead, my car dies completely. Yeah no joke, this sucks!! A friendly man helped me push my car into a local movie theater and a hour later I'm laying down in  my new campsite for the night. A queen size bed at the "luxurious" AirCrest Motel in Port Angeles. My car has been towed to a local auto shop and i am playing the waiting game until Friday morning!!! The crappy part about my motel is that i my can view exactly where i was supposed to be setting up my hammock for the night at Deer Park campground. Feeling frustrated, i walked down the main drag of Port Angeles and found a Mexican restaurant to eat my final REAL meal for the next three days. Back to the campsite (Motel) i walked, deciding not to take Mike's invitation to go drinking with him. Mike was the tow truck driver. Back in Mike's early years he was in the minor leagues in California playing baseball for one of the Athletics farm team's. The people i met and the stories i heard made my epic 42 mile backpacking trip even better, which hasn't even started yet! It put the frosting on the cake. Home made cream cheese frosting that is! I promise this epic will start tomorrow or has it already? Day 2: 12 miles to Gray Wolf Pass is coming!!

Looking South up at Mt Angeles and on the far left is where i should have been spending the night