On October 01, 2016, Landchatch and I arrived at our start point for the Juan de Fuca Trail to continue on our quest of completing the trail. The weather was good and it was not raining to start with. It was near 0800 hours when we started down and our first caches was https://coord.info/GC3QBPB, which is an earth cache. The trail down was good and we hiked in to complete 7 caches ending up at Chin 2 China 4. The trails were not too bad in this section except one small area of mud. We then hiked back up to the truck and and moved the truck down the highway about 2.5 KM's and proceeded down to get back on the trail as well as doing the caches on the way down. This way down took us on a old logging road and then to a goat trail to the beach, this was very steep and one would have to be very careful on this section.
We hiked the trail to Plantman_Geocache #7. The trail over this section was extreamly muddy in sections and can see this being very difficult in the winter months as the rains build as it does in this area. From here we decided to take the trail up to the road doing the two caches along the way. The trail up was in good shape and we ended up on the highway 1.1 KM's from the truck, so it was a lot better than two weeks ago where it was 6.5 KM's back.
Our total hike was 19 KM's, 18 of them on the trails. The views were wonderful and we saw 5 people running the trail and 4 women hiking the trails. We did get some rain a few time through the day but over all it was a great day weather wise.
I bought a pair of Solomon Quest boots at MEC in Victoria and for the first time in a long time, my feet were completely dry. I would recommond these for any kind of hiking. The cost with taxes was about $300.00. We have one more section to do on the Juan de Fuca trail left and plan to complete it in the near future or when the weather will allow. At least that is our goal but it may take us two more visits to this area to complete it. What a wonderful area with great caches.
