{"id":1875,"date":"2021-08-04T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2021-09-14T15:48:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:48:56","slug":"daily-log-day-51-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/2021\/08\/04\/daily-log-day-51-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Log: Day 51"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

51 2616.8<\/a> 8\/4\/2021 sunny, hot. Woke and packed up and was on trail. I left Justin and the Jeep at 5:30 and got on trail at 5:38. I was slack packing today. There were reflective dots on trees to get from the campsite to the CDT. With MIO I was zooming. In two miles I was climbing the only major climb for the day. It converted to a road walk with massive piles of trees clear cut beside the road. I met \u201cHobbit\u201d, \u201cOne Speed\u201d, \u201cJust Paul\u201d near a pond and chatted with them about the upcoming trail. [Note: Unbeknownst to me at that time I had met both of them them on the PCT in 2014<\/a>!] They helped \u201cSheep goat\u201d with his Glacier transit by allowing him to join them on their permit. They also told me about upcoming trail magic – sodas in a cooler. The road walk was about 3 miles and near the end I found it and got a coke. Soon the trail left the road and went through some blowdowns. On the first ones I tripped, fell backwards and ripped a 2\u201d gash in my left inside ankle. It was deep but not bloody. I immediately sent an InReach message to Justin. Then I ripped and wrapped it with my snot rag. Finally I bound it down with my belt. I found I could walk so I continued albeit slowly northbound toward Justin. I got cell signal and phoned him. I explained my injury. He was about 4-5 miles ahead. He grabbed his first aid supplies and headed south while I walked slowly north. We met about midway. He removed my belt and snot rag replacing them with butterfly bandages and an ace bandage. We slowly hiked the 2 miles to the Jeep. We drove into Helena to St. Peter\u2019s Urgent care. Soon nurse Michael and doctor Cassie were working on me. In about two hours I was released with two sutures in my leg, a tetanus shot, a prescription for antibiotics and a bag of bandages. After the pharmacy we went to the Best Western and checked in. Dinner was at the Brewhouse Downstairs. I had meatloaf and Justin had chicken.\u00a0 We both had beer or ale. Well that was quite a day. Very unexpected but the adventure continues. We might stay two more days based in the doctor suggestion we should delay 48 hours. Although we had planned a zero day tomorrow we never expected that a gash in my leg would require that. Night night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m alway curious how rock slides form. Did some catastrophe cause them or was it something else.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On trail Justin unlashed my belt around the wound and removed the snot rag to examine it. Luckily it hadn’t re-opened or bled too much while I hiked the two miles towards him which was good (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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He cleaned the wound with alcohol, used buttrefly bandages to hold it together, and later wrapped it with an elastic bandage (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Then we drove to the Helena Emergency Room. Hiking is always an adventure! (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I filled out forms and was ushered back to one of the rooms (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Justin stayed with me the whole time (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nurse Michael and Physician’s Assistant Cassie took great care of me. Cassie had to open the wound to irrigate and clean it. (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Then she gave me two stitches – one on each end of the deep section. She told me that this is considered a “dirty wound” and must be left open to allow the body to secrete and drain any infection. Finally she applied a gauze sponge and gauze pad and wrapped the whole affair in a bandage. Also I was given a tetanus shot and a prescription for antibiotics (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

51 2616.8 8\/4\/2021 sunny, hot. Woke and packed up and was on trail. I left Justin and the Jeep at 5:30 and got on trail at 5:38. I was slack packing today. There were reflective dots on trees to get from the campsite to the CDT. With MIO I was zooming. In two miles I … Continue reading “Daily Log: Day 51”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-log","category-hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}