Saturday, June 4, 2011

Notes: 30 miler on a desert night hike

This entry is not written yet, these are just notes:
It was a wet night and as much as I wanted to wait until the sun warmed and dried the tent, I also had to go to the bathroom really bad
got up hear spoonman
#2 in the woods again
bandit then sprinkles too
walked tot he tank cgot confused, it wasn't the one
walked to the guzzler
filmed it,
Dirt Bike Riders on the trail
gourmet yelled at them
missed the campsite at Bear
met up with Gourmet and Krista and Hotrod, cricket etc at the Horse springs camp
ate lunch
got back on and went down. Cows, fields, goats, long ass hike along the range til we finally go down because of the shooting club.
Hikertown:
Describe it,, full facilities, shower, laundry, funky little prop buildings, roosters dogs, garage with couches, tv lot of hiker box goodies and food
coffee maker incident
bunch of people were there, we ordered food from the market and Doug picked us up in his RV ans took us to the store.
I got a pastrami sandwich and picked up a few walking snacks
We got showers and washed clothes at Hikertown but the owner wasn't there.
caretaker
had a lot of conspiracy stories
Didn't want to head out so early but bandit and Sprinkles wanted to get on the road we were going for 34 mile day
going to follow the Aqueduct for most of the second part
huge group of us, everyone was drinking and wearing glow sticks and glow bracelets
we were way out in front all night, worried they would get lost, we actually made a wrong turn in the dark and had to follow another road to get back to the trail.
Cold and wind kicking up dust
we could hear the aqueduct rushing below us
stopped for dinner on one of the way stations
So tired, zombie walking
at about 30 miles decided to call it quits, looked around for campsite all we found was broken glass and shotgun shells
looked for spots with shade because the sun would be killer in the am






David AKA “Mister F. Gentle Spirit”
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