Day 7-its not always sunny in California

My pack weighed more, the weather sucked, my stuff was wet, and I had to climb all day. But somehow I ended up 24 miles down the trail. I made it a couple miles past tule spring on the edge of the desert. The first 12 miles were so wet I could feel the puddles in my shoes, but thankfully, due to my pack cover most of the stuff in my pack stayed pretty dry. After those twelve miles of climbing were over I scurried down off the mountain and once again into the desert. Here I took a much needed break and took all my wet things out and let them dry. I packed stuff up and hung the things that were still wet on my pack and continued on. Then eight more miles (20into my day) I got to a small spring right in the middle of the desert and decided it was time to eat something other than trail mix for re first time today. I had some interesting beans that Ended up not too. Another hiker then passed me while I was getting water with my steripen (a uv light to make water safe to drink). I am now towards the middle front in the pack of hikers and have plenty of people to conquer the brief bit of upcoming snow with. Today wore me out and tomorrow should be the same as I should just about get to the snow.