CDT Day 100: Fire Detour to Togwotee Pass

Daily Miles: 12.0, Total Miles: 1,741.9

Showers off and on all night and definitely a cold front moving in. My pants and shirt were still sopping wet so I decided to hike in my thermal long johns I already had on for sleepwear. To look more formal in the unlikely instance I would see someone, I put on a pair of short shorts over the thermal bottoms.

I hiked up what I thought was the right forest service road for the fire detour following Fish Creek to the northeast. Looking like good bear country now reinforced by large piles of bear scat. I made considerable noise just in case. The road eventually left the creek and rejoined the CDT at Pilots Knob.

The next challenge was an historically tough 28-mile hitch from Togwotee Pass to the town of Dubois. For appearances, I thought it best to put on my still wet pants. Sparse but fast traffic, and a bit surprised a car pulled over in under 25 minutes. The young gentleman who picked me up was a dog handler/trainer in the Air Force and I got to meet his bomb-sniffing dog. He said they do a lot of work for the Secret Service.

Nice to be in Dubois WY, a small town but seems to have just about everything a hiker needs.