Mile Marker 203: "Fuck tech, Im down with plastic bags!" David invents Hobotech-4000 Socks. A revolution in no-cost cold-wet weather gear. You microwave your socks and use a laundry bag as an over-sock.

Mile Marker 203: Lake Chelan is the main pull to Chelan. It is the third deepest lake in the nation and the 26th deepest in the world.

Mile Marker 203: Chelan to Stehekin is about 50 miles by way of the Lady of the Lake ferry. If pressed to make a guess as to the origin story of the Lady of the Lake ferry's name, the YJ staff would hazard that it has to do with a certain native American woman who is featured as the central brand idiom for a nationally distributed butter brand, not the ghost arm that can some how float while holding a sword.

Mile Marker 203: The ferry from Chelan to Stehekin will cost you $40 per person, the same amount as our taxi ride the night before... coincidence? fate? graft? Our questions went unanswered.

Mile Marker 203: Bicycle transport on the Lady of the Lake is $13.50 each way.

Mile Marker 203: The Shoreline Marine Galvanized Cast Iron Cleat is the best selling boat cleat on Amazon.

Mile Marker 203: The Effects of Motorized Watercraft on Aquatic Ecosystems, Timothy R. Asplund, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Integrated Science Services and University of Wisconsin – Madison, Water Chemistry Program. PDF LINK.

Mile Marker 203: If you are one of these two people, we want to HANG! Bro, you shooting digital? How many megs we talking about here?

Mile Marker 203: The flag should not be displayed on days when the weather is inclement, with the exception of an all-weather (nylon or other non-absorbent material) flag. However, most flags are made of all-weather (nylon or other non-absorbent material) materials.

Mile Marker 203: "There is one permanent resident at the lake. Ogopogo! This is a monster who at one time devoured all the grazing animals on what was once flat prairie land. When the Indians who lived there and depended on the animals for their substance, they appealed to the Splendid Spirit to help them. Splendid Spirit threw down a large stone to kill the monster, and the stone, instead of killing the monster, made a huge crater with mountains surrounding it."—Tony Rose

Mile Marker 203: Cole, chillin'.

Mile Marker 203: More than 90% of the Lake Chelan watershed is forested land.

Mile Marker 203: Top right - A singular study of contemporary treking footwear.

Mile Marker 203: Cole: "WOW Hahn, that is quite a feat, howd'ya do it?"

Hahn: " Make your right hand into a fist. Make your left hand a fist, too, but pull your thumb between your index and middle finger. Hold the index finger of your right hand, still in a fist, up to the bottom part of your left hand's thumb so it looks like a full finger. Then lift the thumb from the finger and make it look like you're taking off the top of your pointer! Voila!"

Cole: "So you're fingers ok then?"

Mile Marker 203: Lake Chelan National Recreation Area, which Stehekin resides in, is a unit administered by the National Park Service.

Mile Marker 203: Daniel, Hahn and David sleep in 6x3' area without touching, David sleeps like we all did in the third grade, utilizing a time tested "head-on-the-desk" style.

Mile Marker 203: Old people, young people, Macbooks, people with pitbull in camo were going to work on construction project in Stehekin. Overheard during our passage "I worked on my wife's muzzleloader so she's happy."

Mile Marker 203: We know you're wondering, "Can I bring my firearm on the boat?" Well here is your answer, and you're in luck: "Yes, however the firearm must be unloaded with the bolt open, and must be presented to the Captains, separate from other luggage, and will be transported in the pilot house with the Captains."

Mile Marker 203: In 2011, Emily von Jentzen became the first person to swim the length of Lake Chelan, finishing in 36 hours. She performed the feat to raise money for Katelyn Roker, a young girl battling stage-4 neuroblastoma.

Mile Marker 203: On July 11, 2014, Lake Chelan was crossed via standup paddleboard (SUP) from Stehekin to Chelan in 13 hours, 30 minutes by Matt Parker and Joe Walker. It was the first such crossing. They left the Stehekin River at 7:15 AM on July 11, 2014 and touched dry land at Campbell's Resort in Chelan, WA at 8:45 PM that same day. They traveled via 14' SUP boards.

Mile Marker 203: Lake Chelan, at 50.5 miles long, has a surface area of 52.1 square miles. If you have basic arithmetic skills you can do the math to figure out about how wide the lake is.

Mile Marker 203: Stehekin sits across the lake from Chelan and is only accessibly by boat, plane, foot, and hoof.

Mile Marker 203: Stehekin means ”The Way Through” in “chinuk wawa,” a Creole trade language found in the Cascades. It is a reflection of the trapper-traders and American Indian presence in the region. Many names in the region come from “chinuk wawa.”

Mile Marker 203: "It was said that forcing loyal seamen to walk the plank was supposed, by the perpetrators, to "avoid the penalty for murder" (by not actually killing the victims), but this would hardly have worked. Not only would most legal authorities not have hesitated to prosecute any person who forced another to his death, but piracy and mutiny were also capital crimes. Given the occasions on which it was known to have been employed, it appears more likely to have been an elaborate and unusual form of sadistic entertainment rather than a regular method of murdering unwanted captives."

Mile Marker 203: Someone, somehow, may or may not have broken Cole's bike in transit.

Mile Marker 203: We load out and move our bikes away from boat. Afterward we get a camping pass, a permit, and info. Unsolicited advice is dispensed. "Never trust the so called rangers, fucking hang around the fort Indians, who don’t know where the trails go or how long they are!" The veracity of these claims will be tested in the coming hours.

Mile Marker 203: Between March 15 and 28 of 2007, WeavTel, a telecommunications company based in Chelan at the head of the lake began normal operations of standard-delivery residential and business telephone service. Stehekin, previously served only by highly expensive satellite and radio telephones, finally joined the Washington Telephone Grid after decades of isolation. The move was not widely accepted amongst residents, however business owners agreed that there is a benefit to having normal telephone service.

Mile Marker 204: As it turns out, the trail does not immediately begin in Stehekin, so we began riding again.

Mile Marker 205: Five miles down this road we learned that it was, in fact, impassable. We would learn even later that it is not the best route to the trail, either. We have accounted for and avoided these mistakes in the attached cue sheet, so you're welcome.

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Mile Marker 209: Rainbow Creek.

Mile Marker 209: Hey Hahn, whatcha' thinkin' 'bout?

Mile Marker 211: The YJIGET (Yonder Journal Iron Goat Expedition Team) did not follow a unified bicycle packing theory, and in the end, each team members packing methodology said a lot about our individual psyches. Or at least we speculated that it did. Everyone was mostly satisfied-ish, except for David. David was very unsatisfied.

Mile Marker 211: Morale boosters were required, because it was really wet and cold and we were carrying our bikes and the hike was twice as long as we thought it was, and we were really behind schedule.

Mile Marker 211: Block it all out, cut away all the influences. If you are preparing to strap a perfectly functional bicycle to your back so that you may more easily walk with it, thus simultaneously defeating the purpose of the bicycle and your reason for having it, then, having successfully freed your mind from suggestion, what you see above is exactly the image that your mind would create.

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Mile Marker 211: Due to long standing bias towards bicycles by curiously opinionated fellow outside experiencers the Yonder Journal Iron Goat Permanent Expedition Team (YJIGET), a law abiding and righteous crew, was forced to construct a manageable bike carry system in order to navigate the a section of Wilderness and Pacific Crest Trail that is strictly verboten to bicyclists.

Mile Marker 214: If hiking sucks, then you stay in the first campground with a shelter. The Bridge Creek Campground used to be a small camp center for trappers and miners in the Stehekin area. There was a post office, a few small stores, and a “boarding house.” “Forest liquor” was possibly invented here. It is a small batch alcohol made from ponderosa pine needles. Known receipts died with the trappers who made it due to the high toxicity of ponderosa needles.

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Mile Marker 214: We woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of what our consensus estimated to be around 300 rats engaged in ribald sexual acts. We saw stars in the rain. There is speculation that this unexpected view of the nights sky incited the aforementioned rodent orgy.

Mile Marker 214: "Guys, what's Hantavirus?"

Mile Marker 214: There is nothing, not-a-thing, that is confidence inspiring about this image.