Daily Log: Day 3

Meetup: Day 3 – Wednesday 7/15/2020 – 1300.3 – sunny, hot. I got up at 4:36 am and was on trail by 5:23 am. I’m finding that eating Raisin Bran isn’t good right now. I seem to be choking it down. So I’m switching to pop tarts next. I only have 9 miles. It should only take me to 9 am to get there. The trail was a double track road. It isn’t exciting but so much easier than cross country point to point across brush & sage. Along the way I passed more markers for the California Trail and its Seminoe Cutoff and the Oregon Trail. Near the end was a CDT paddock with two cases of water and a register. I sat a few minutes and wrote in it. The previous entry was NOBO on 7/11, four days ago. Immediately after leaving I noticed a stick or something in the distance silhouetted on a hill. My next glance showed it had moved to the right. Then my next glance it was gone from the top and appeared to be moving down. I was less than a mile from our meetup and it was Justin coming to meet me. Sweet! We walked back to the Jeep together talking about our adventures for the past three days. The rest of the day was resting, eating, cleaning, and prepping for the next section. He offered to cook breakfast but I wanted to leave early so instead he cooked sausage, scrambled eggs with cheese in a bun for lunch. Yummy! The afternoon included a short drive to a hilltop where we got cell reception. I was able to post a bunch of pictures to my CDT blog. Because hiker hunger hasn’t struck me he made small burgers with chips for dinner. Now it’s time for cowboy camping again beside his Jeep. I’m in my warmer sleeping bag tonight. There are cows about but generally they stay away. Tomorrow I’m going to try pushing it a bit to cut the distance to the meetup from 2.4 days to just 2. It’ll be my first MIO and Advil (ibuprofen) day. Good night all.