Day 65- mom knows best

I'm sure everyone remembers when they were a kid and wanted to just eat junk food all day but your mom wouldn't let you. Well that is exactly what I did today with no mom around. All I had was ice cream for breakfast and then cheetos and Oreos for the rest of the day. It was a terrible idea and I was dragging all day. So tonight for dinner I had some really good new Mexican stew (dehydrated). Even with the terrible food moving through me I got 20 miles in after starting at 1030 from echo lake. Not bad! There were many day hikers out in desolation national forest. The ranger Brent who I talked to said that it is the most used national forest, at least on the pct. He is also the first ranger to check my thru hiking permit. So I showed him and moved on. Even though they said there was not going to be much snow and I went over my last 9000 foot pass (dicks pass) there was still snow all over around 8000 feet. It really drained my energy. Of the hikers I saw today, there was one very nice lady who said she was following all the blogs and was amazed at the few of us that were walking still through this record snow year. It was nice to hear someone talk about how we were inspirational. Hopefully tomorrow I can get close to Truckee, but tonight I am real tired.