Friday, August 12, 2011

August 10

End: Boulder Lakes Trail Junction
Daily: 31.9
Total: 1574.3
Golden Lupines

Longest Day Ever! Felt good - well, most of it.

We left camp at 6:15 and contoured most of the day. It was crazy to be walking on one side of a bowl and see the trail on the other side ... it seemed like it would be almost make a 360 at one point. We were laughing about the fact that the trail was so flat from the contouring that we were goingto pull a 30, but if we just went down into the valley and back up we could be just as close to Etna and just as tired with 22 miles. I definitely prefer the contouring.

Other than that, the walk was mostly gorgeous views, wildflowers and springs today. What a pretty area.

Man, mosquitos are bad at camp tonight. And our zippers don't work well, so it took forever to close them.

Okay, shorter day tomorrow, definitely. My feet were so tired. We got to the giddy, giggling stage of exhaustion in the last two miles or so. But we did such a big day, I'm content.

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