July 4.
Started hiking at 7.20am.
Short break for an energy bar in a meadow full of flowers around 10.30am.
Lunch break at 12pm with Tinkle but without Cactass – she wants to push further. Wolf Creek at mile 1039.
Plan is to camp at mile 1049 Small Sherrold Lake – that would make it a 21 miles day – the first 20+ since entering the Sierra about a month ago. But I start feeling the pressure… Nearly three months on trail, but the midpoint still is 200+ miles out. Still believing in the Oregon wonder… 😉 After the midpoint at 1325 miles, many hikers increased their mileage significantly due to the flat land in Northern California and Oregon…
Caught up with Cactass. We heard about trail magic at Ebbots pass. Made it there around 5.30pm. And what a trail magic! Despite of July 4th, a nice couple offered hot dogs, sodas, beer, fruit, snacks…. Best trail magic I had on trail!
They also had some magic like energy bars, gear, even new socks sponsored by SNAC – thanks for the merino socks!
Had two beers there and another one to go.. our planned camp site was just another half mile out.
A nice evening with bellies full of magic, beers and sparklers for July 4th!
The world is big 