I walked 56760 steps on the trail today.
I traveled about 23 miles today.
8/17/17 We left the Cowville (Colville) forest a couple days ago and entered the O-cow-nogan (Okanogan) forest today.  I had no idea how many cows are free range grazing out there!  We got to herd cows again but this time they also raised a huge cloud of dust along the trail.  At the end of the day, our water source is a small pond that we chased the cows from.  Its still yellow after filtering, but a little crystal light covers any taste.  We did walk .5 miles farther looking for a spring on the map but it was just a muddy area trampled with cow prints. Besides the cows and deep dust, the climb and ridge walk out of Sweat Creek was a good hike.  Once we got up on the hills, we could see for miles today.  Smoke was practically gone and mountains way off on the far horizon were visible.