27: Wyoming Range
Started out the day with a brief soak back at the Astoria Hot Springs. Proceeded to a second breakfast at the well supplied Hoback market, before turning toward the Wyoming range.
Once off the highway, the trail gradually degraded over the next 8 hours from well defined and evidently well traveled at first to largely theoretical by the end of the day.
While fairly uninspiring terrain and trail for much of the day, reaching the alpine has me feeling more sanguine.
This area seems to be a forgotten range. There are indications that once upon a time there was considerable human activity in this area but that time has long since passed. Signs of modern human activity (well established campsites, footprints, etc.) are almost entirely absent. I wonder if there’s a bit of a social media effect going on here: the Wind River Range went viral and the Wyoming Range went dormant?
Used my headlamp for the first time tonight. The days are getting perceptively shorter as the season goes on and I continue to move south.