We were worried today that we’d lose a few people, but C and I needed to cover some ground, so we hit about 15 miles. But at the end of the day, everyone showed up! It was very exciting. It did rain a bit, but barely, and it wasn’t long enough for the springs to get filled up again. The drought is pretty bad. We met a character today, his Trail Name was Old Thunder. He was a little crazy. He was hiking with his dog, named, inspiringly: Dog. We all kinda blinked when we heard that. Really? Your dog’s name is dog? Really? Fair enough. I was pretty thirsty this night, because we were trying to conserve water. Sigh.
As we were up on a ridge today, we got a good view of the surrounding territory, and to the west (the sun was setting, so it was near there), we saw flat land. It looked flat. It looked like we were running a ridge right by it…maybe 10 miles away, flat land. Right there. It was a little odd to see that. And we wondered why were weren’t over there. Of course, it we were there, we would want to be in the mountains, but during a hard climb, you always thing: wouldn’t it be nicer if this was flat? Naturally not, but it always makes you think. My left knee twitched a little today, but I decided that if C can gut out his leg thing, I can gut out a little knee thing now and again. It went away after some Vitamin I (Ibuprofen), and I was ok after that.
Some eggs of something or other.
A really awesome flowering tree
C and I, hanging out by an great view.
More of the view.
You can see the clouds starting to get a little grim.
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