Finished the Virtual Pacific Crest Trail (PCT)!!!

 Almost there... one step in front of the other... almost there... almost there...

Oh hullo... I have news!!! We (Little Fox and I) are almost done the virtual Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) on The Conqueror Challenges!!

Seeee... only 8.41 km (that's about 5 miles)... soooo close... LF and I are both hiking so this could go by very fast...

It's been a beary long road... 4000 km... 2500 miles. And every hike we did inched us along the route.

It's been really fun.

But I am beary tired too... 

It's hard to keep the human motivated!

But it's also been a great way to explore local trails...

See this... Spotted Coralroot orchid! It is (let me wiki this): "Corallorhiza maculata is a myco-heterotroph; it lacks chlorophyll and obtains energy by parasitizing the mycelium of fungi in the family Russulaceae."

It's beary cool! And I found a clump of them... wonder if there is a clump of Russula mushrooms here in the fall too?

We are getting closer!!! Less than 2 km... that's about a mile! We are doing it today!

There's a nice clump of camas up here... nice.

And... just like that... we are done the PCT!!!

The app bleeped and burped and... we got our Finisher certificate...

Wow... we're really done... hard to believe. There were points in California (longest state in history) where I thought we'd never get to Oregon...

But we have the final postcard too...

And the app map has confirmed it...

Time for a celebratory snack!!!! And thanks to LF for joining up with us to do this... not sure we could have done 4000 km in 24 months (the timeframe to complete a Conqueror Challenge)... not unless I had taken up jogging and this little bear is most definitely NOT a jogger...

Now... we just await our medals... coming in the mail... unless Canada Post strikes (AGAIN!) on May 22... ugh... Don't they know Real Mail is essential to a stuffie? Should be declared an essential stuffie service... hmph.

A Hike along the River

Righto... we are off on a hike today!

Just wandering around down by the river and checking out what there is to check out. We have strawberry blooming! 

They make the teeny-tiny berries which have more flavour than three regular strawberries!

There are so many cool rocks here!

Like, rocks from everywhere!

We have volcanic porphyry...

And we have granites...

Along with sandstones and conglomerates.

Let's see what else we can find.

A different view...

There are cute maple trees here... not the Big Leaf Maples like at home

But one with daintier leaves...

The river is eroding this bank quite badly...

That's what happens with rivers... they are never stationary!

We found this cool mural under the highway!

Have you seen the video??? It's pretty funny... It's a 3 minute video by Pixar...

In case it doesn't load (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLdfpBNjdDc)

But we see another mural on another bridge pier... just have to get there...

And hop across...

Do you see them??? They are called "The Boys"... It's a bunch of bad-ass teddy bears!

Strange... 

We found some mushrooms...

And the Saskatoon's are in bloom! Also known as Pacific serviceberry, western serviceberry, western shadbush, or western juneberry... we want to know what Little Fox calls them. We think Saskatoon Berry must be a purely Canadian name.

It's so pretty here.

And sometimes you just need to stop and sit...

And enjoy the view.

Isn't this cool? Someone broke open a rock and... while it's kind of a meh grey on the outside... it's green on the inside!

That's pretty neat!

We didn't find a lot of other flowers blooming... other than dandelions of course!

But we did find some of the tree carvings... this is an owl!

And then the faces in the trees...

This next one is cool!!!

With a rifle and everything!

This tree is also neat as it has lots of little carved cabins/houses...

Seeee....

Very cute...

But we also saw that a lot of the older carvings are gone... either taken by someone or they just deteriorate over the years as the cottonwood bark grows and expands.

Cool!!! We had fun here!