Hike for a Hospital

I woke up with the rusting of other, more eager hikers packing up camp, and i reached for my water bottle with a failed groan realising i hadnt been sleeping on my roll mat all night. My skin had also stuck to the tarp floor and i also discovered i had been using my unzipped sleeping bag as a blanket all night. It was obvious that last night was a good night. The best thing was, i didnt have to leave till 3pm where little bug and squirrel would drop me back off at mile 58.

We all hung about chatting and napping all day until we had to leave as squirrel and Noah both had flights leaving. Annie also squeezed into the van and we headed off to drop me off on the trail. It was amazing to see the distance I had walked in just 4 days. It took considerably longer than I had expected to get to the trail head so we were all a little worried about the prospect of missing flights. I hope you guys made it! We hugged and took some photos and with even more nervous excitement than the first day, I hit the trail again at 4:30pm. It took 4 miles for me to recognize that my first trial of icebraker shorts + commando had failed, and I stopped to change. I continued on until sunset and set up my first time cowboy camping (sleeping under the stars). I heard a few coyote howls so had a cigar to make myself seem more burly to any stray coyotes. I slept happy knowing i had walked 9 miles hungover and beat little bug and squirrels monday hungover effort last year by 3 miles.