Day 65
Today's Miles: 14.3
This morning we headed out from Tom's, but not before we weighed our packs. With everything including food and water, my total pack weight was 32lbs. Tailgate's pack weighed 34lbs. Our packs were actually some of the lighter to leave Tom's over the last few days, we were pretty surprised.
Here I am weighing my pack.
We set out for a short day, but we also were going to climb up to 8,000 ft. today.
First we had some more meadow walking to do, which still looked awfully like the desert to me.
I guess it's official: we are in the Sierras now.
The first 5 miles today absolutely flew by! Tailgate and I were in a great mood and were enjoying all of the water we were running into.
After we started climbing, the views of the mountains and meadows were awesome! Such a welcome change of pace.
We stopped for a few minutes to watch this hawk soar above us.
This wood have been such a lovely shaded section of trail before it was burnt.
Speaking of fire, the fire we mentioned on our first day at Tom's was contained that night. However, it was a very smoky night.
Meadow walking. Luckily it was in the 70's today and very comfortable.
We had big plans to spend the afternoon swimming in the Kern River, but when we arrived the river was pretty low. However, there is an awesome campsite above the river.
We stayed here with Lifeboat, Doc, Bluejay, Super Girl, Little Bear, Day Man, Camshaft and Karate Kid.
We made a campfire and even played a few campfire games. We played the one where each person makes up a few sentences of a story and then the next person adds onto it and so on. We came up with some pretty good stories while we were keeping warm around the fire.
The fire was smoking a few of us out, but man it got chilly last night. Our down jackets were put to good use.
-Twist
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