June 7, 2012.
Day: 14 Daily Miles: 47.5 Total Miles: 625.25 Hours Hiking: 18.5 5:10am-11:40pm
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Day 14
June 7th, day 14,
coordinates 0396936E 3928463N. I ended at mile 625.25 for a grand
total of 47.5 miles. I was out kinda in where I expected to be,
passed the Kelso Valley road in the rolling rocky hills with Joshua
Trees.... ------------(too windy to hear)------------ For the
beginning of the day it was pretty dang nice. I actually hiked – I
woke up at about 5am and started hiking and put in about 3 miles to
make sure my previous days mileage was high. So in actuality, I
probably did like a 52 yesterday. But I survived, I did a bunch of
night hiking, I hiked until about 11:30pm. The best part of the day –
the first 25 miles was super boring until I made it to Robin Bird
Springs, filled up, took a long lunch, did some foot care. After
lunch I felt the mental haze I've felt before but have never gotten
in the middle of the day. It's only ever been in the mornings or in
the later afternoons which makes it weird that I got it around lunch.
It basically made my afternoon miserable, I just hated life, I was
like uggghhh, I can't handle this, this sucks. I finally ate more and
drank more and it kind of went away. So I'm not sure if it's related
to electrolytes or blood sugar level or dehydration, but I think it's
one of those three. I also took some caffeine which perked me up
after a little while, made me
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| A mile before the Kelso Valley Road crossing and cache. |
happy, then I was glad I was doing what
I was doing, like it normally does, because I'm not addicted to it. I
sped on down to the Kelso Valley cache, filled up water. I was going
to take less than a did, but saw a note dated the 5th of
June that the awesome person who delivers the water out there, his
transmission broke, and wasn't sure if he could make the delivery to
the next cache. So I made sure to stockpile enough to make it all the
way, the next 30 some-odd miles to Walker Pass. That's where the
trail magic is happening 7-9th, I'm going to hit it on the
8th. I almost actually to Bird Springs road cache right
now which is full. I night hiked where I night hiked before in 2009,
it was great, it was a lot easier than I remembered actually, that
was a plus. It was windy, but I found a great place tucked behind
some Joshua Trees, where there was no wind. It ended well and started
OK. It was actually about 80 degrees all day long in the sun so it
was hot. I'm going to make it to the trail magic today, hopefully
hang out for only an hour. Get some good food and make some more
miles so I can cut the mileage down for the next day to make it to
Kennedy Meadows hopefully before the store closes so I can get my
stuff prepared at night and leave in the morning.
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| Morning panorama looking north towards the Sierras I was to see soon enough! |
