Day 87
Camped at mile 1440, just outside of Burney Falls SP
21.2 miles
We started out the day hiking around 6:45am. Tadpole and her mom had walked past while we were eating breakfast and it was neat to meet her mom who was here visiting.
Usually our mornings consist of waking up, packing up the tent contents into our packs, the pads, sleeping bags, clothes etc. then we get out of the tent and take it down and get our food bags out of the trees. I repack my food into my pack and eat breakfast. Then sometimes I have to go dig a hole or Kevin does so this extends our mornings. We aren’t super fast getting out of camp in the AM but our routine works for us.
At the first water of the day, our group who had stopped in town all caught up to us and we had a lot of fun seeing how our past few days had all been and we got the chance to discuss how we are going to get around the fire closures.
Today we got to cross a giant dam that they are doing construction on. Then we started up our big climb of the day. It was graded so very well and almost all of it was shaded. I was so grateful for the shade as it feels about twenty degrees hotter in the sun.
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