We cowboy camped last night on a dry river bed next to the trail. Not my choice of spot, and I would have preferred to put the tent up, but I owed Tracy one after my "Night of Wind" camp spot.
Thankfully it was she and not I who had something jump on her face in the middle of the night. "It was either a mouse or a lizard" she said with unbelievable calm. "I just flicked it off"
Even though it was hot and there were more burnt sections of trail with nothing but shrubs and black tree trunks sticking up like gravestones, unlike yesterday the miles seemed to go by very quickly. The day was broken up into 5 mile intervals. The first stop being a "good flow" creek, which in fact turned out to be a muddy creek that fortunately someone had dammed in order to create a very shallow pool of just barely moving water. The second stop was a swimming hole along the Kern river. We cooled our feet and knees but didn't get all the way in. We were saving the hair wash for the shower in Kennedy Meadows a few miles away.
We arrived in Kennedy Meadows (consisting of a general store and Tom's Place, hiker place to stay) to find that they had run out of water for showers and laundry. We were told to sign up for a trailer to stay in and to come back at 4:20pm when they would announce who gets trailers. So with hours to kill we had 2 cans each of Kerns peach juice, collected our boxes, charged our devices, including my NEW CAMERA :), ordered lunch and chatted with other diners.
Got 2 new pairs of Darn Tough socks, Brooks cascadia trail runners (a little too big but I can always store emergency gummy bears in them), our food boxes (thanks Robyn and Tony) and our new sleeping pads (thanks Mary and Beth). They also sneaked in a bunch of goodies, the ginger vodka made us very popular in the evening with the 2 Andrews from Seattle.
We didn't get a trailer but a nice tent spot behind the store. Hopefully tomorrow we'll get our shower and laundry done. Then we need to get more snack food for the next section, send things back we don't need, and if possible lighten our pack weight cos tomorrow we're picking up our 2lb heavy bear canisters that we are required to carry our food in for the next several hundred miles.
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