July 21, Day 93: 1424.7-1447.3
Miles Hiked: 22.6
Gratitude of the Day: I’m thankful for my friends Zach and Megan Jones, and their son Bodhi. They are so much fun and I wish I could see them more, but when I do it’s like I saw them yesterday. They are amazing individuals and I’m so happy to have them in my life.
Today was a pretty great day overall. My only complaint would be that I’ve got a new blister for the first time since the desert that is on my left ball of my foot. It’s fairly large and right where you push off when you take a step, so every step with my left foot is painful and god forbid I step on a pointy rock…. Ouch! The pain dulls after hiking on it for about a quarter mile, but it never goes away. So all day was a little brutal in that respect. Other than that, the trail was a up and down roller coaster in large pines with a soft tread. The trees kept the sun at bay and it stayed relatively cool for the majority of the day. By 11:30 I reached a great shaded lunch stop and had done 12.2 miles, so I stopped, took off my shoes and laid down my ground sheet, filtered water and then proceeded to sit there for 3 hours laying down and eating lunch.
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| A Dunk in a hammock |
Soon all the Salty Butt Bandits we’re doing the same and around 2:30pm several of us got up the motivation to hike the last 10 miles for the day. It was rough starting out again, as Clancy says, “I need to warm up my blisters” before getting going at my normal hiking speed.
The trail remained the same with a couple peekaboo glances at Mt Shasta. Camp tonight is at Moosehead Creek, there’s a ton of hikers camped here so we’re rather crowded in. The air is cool and I think it’ll be a good nights sleep.
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