Thursday, July 21, 2011

Day 70-what? More snow

Today was hard. Today was long. And worst of all, today had snow. I began from the top of the highest ridge in the section and descended into the mountain roads of the Sierra buttes. I met a few people on these roads. First off a guy who is newly retired and out enjoying the outdoors. Second was a group from silicon valley doing some hiking. They had an enterprise truck that had all their food for the trip. My skills at getting food out of groups has gotten good so j gave it a try. I first asked for water, they gave it and then when I started telling my story they gave me a sandwich, 2 apples, and a bag of brownies. Yogiing(the bear) at its finest. From here it was lots of up and down with tons of snow until I met serious guy and banana warrior (the southbounders). They are only walking for a month and they started at Dunsmuir, but they had great information: according to them today would be the last day of snow! So I trucked through it, climbing up to mid seven thousands an then dropping back down only to climb again. It was a bit of a struggle. I did get my "your not in the sierras anymore" moment late in the day though. Because I havent carried water for over a month, I wasn't carrying it at the end of the day and when I wanted to start looking for a place to camp by water on the map the next one was 7 miles away, and it was already 715. I picked up the pace but ended up being saved by alder spring. It was 3/10 of a mile off the trail and not on the map. But I saved me 5 miles. Lately I have been dragging and not havin much energy so at the end of my 33 mile day I am eating 2 dinners, as that is what I believe the problem is. I JUST CAN'T EAT ENOUGH!

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