July 16, Day 88: 1331.3-1350.3
Miles Hiked: 19
Gratitude of the Day: I’m thankful for less stress day on trail where a 19 mile day seems easy.
Back to trail, but first coffee and breakfast sandwiches. It was nice to hang out with the trail family again, I’ve been pushing such big miles I wasn’t sure I’d see them again and I’ve decided that even though it’s kind of amazing to see what my body can do I miss hanging out with them, so I’m not going to be so gung ho. So this morning I hiked out with Zora and Lenore (two other hikers that came into the Salty Butt Bandit fold after the fire closure (Dixie Fire). We first stopped and got iced coffee and then got a hitch back to trail. It was 11:30am by the time we started hiking and the trail was soft duff and super easy. We were covering miles easily. We walked into Lassen National Park today, officially the third national park on trail. We took a side trip down to see Terminal Geyser which was basically a steam vent that reminded me a lot of Yellowstone National Park.
And then walked by Boiling Springs Lake.
We reached Warner Valley Campground which is also a drive up campground and sat at a table to have dinner and several campers next to us started chatting us up and offered us beer… so of course we said yes. Then it was bed time.
In other news, Clyde has decided to jump ahead to Oregon for personal reasons. I’m sad to see him go, he’s always a joy to be around and I’ll miss him. I’d like to think I’ll catch back up with him but that’s a lot of miles to cover to catch him. I’ll just have to make it a point to visit him in Michigan some time, he has so much love and joy for his home and talks about it a lot so I need to see this place. The rest of the Salty Butt Bandits had already booked a hotel for today so they stayed in town. Tomorrow they’ll get back to trail and they’ll catch up with me soon.
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