A few early risers woke me up as they walked past my camp on the ridge, and i finally packed up as tiger paw stopped to chat with me. Tiger paw had lived in taranaki a couple of years and we chatted about nz for a few miles to the next water source. Turns out i had left my sunglasses at camp so I quickly grabbed some water and hurried the next 6 miles in the desert heat to the highway.
After relaxing under the highway bridge for a bit, I hitched the 12 miles to Julian, an old gold mining town. The guy I got the hitch from dropped me off at the "miner's diner, where I had a cherry soda, a vanilla milkshake and a buffalo burger. The burger was actually made with real buffalo, and this was an experience for me as after watching dances with wolves in high school, I thought buffaloes were extinct. Turns out they are not, and are delicious.
I purchased some sunglasses, whiskey, bananas and a famous Julian apple pie and took the pie and bananas back to the bridge for the other hikers to eat. I left them with the leftover pie late afternoon and walked a few miles up the ridge and cowboy camped in a small wash. It was a fairly relaxed day and my feet felt ok after a short 12 miles.
"I thought buffaloes were extinct", ha ha ha. Brilliant. Has been mean reading these blogs big red/ripple giant. Keep up the good work mate.
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