Daily Log: Day 42

Day 42 – Sunday 8/23/2020 – 1962.7 – clear, sunny, hot, monsoon clouds. I woke at 5 am. While packing up I thought I had lost a tent stake. I spent 5-10 minutes probing the soil and searching only to realize that I had already gotten that stake out. Sheesh! Where is my brain at? I was on trail at 5:55 am. Late because of the wasted searching. Today the trail has lots of ups and downs. I estimate there were 5-6 of them. Water was scarce and I was shooting for a stream 10 mile away. Both Rewind and I got there together. But there was no water. We had passed a slow moving cow-poop laden stream about 0.5 back. So I went back and got an ugly 0.7 L bottle of water. When I got back Rewind gave me a chlorine tablet for my ugly water bottle and one for my dirty bottle. He didn’t have to do that. He’s a quite a nice guy! The next water was beyond my 16 mile goal. Regardless I set out for it as did Rewind. It was 2:30 pm when I got there to the water. Rewind was already there. I drank my last 0.7 L good water, filled another bottle and my dirty bottle. I walked with Rewind and did a mile more looking for a flat campsite that wasn’t in a meadow. I found something on a small spur road but Rewind wanted to continued on. All told I did about 19 miles. I have about 14 miles to get to Justin tomorrow. Not exactly what I had expected, but things worked out and I’m fine with that.