Red Sheep Creek.
2047. No Scrabble tonight – we’ve played the last three nights but we’re all beat and we’d have to huddle in one tent because it’s raining and we all have nasty, horrible gas of the most noxious odor. We had a good day’s walk today, nearly eight miles again through a lot of boggy, swampy stuff and, when we needed a break, on the river bed (rocky and hard on the feet in many places, but at least not a swamp).
Found a neat fossil today – several, in fact, but only kept the one.
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Red Sheep Creek.
1853. What can I say about today? It was sunny and clear at 0600 when I got up, already clouding by 0700 when Shari and Erin got up, and raining – again – by the time we hit the trail at 1020. It did stop, finally, around 1400 but as of this writing has started again. To imagine what our walk today was like: Put on a bunch of bulky clothing. Put on a 40-pound pack. Do alternate lunges. For six hours. In the rain. Continue reading “Notes from the Field: 16 August 2013, Day Four” →
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Between Cane Creek and Red Sheep Creek
0840. Last stages of breaking camp. We got rained on last night, enough that the dry river we left yesterday is no longer dry and is noisy enough to be heard from ¾ of a mile and 700’ elevation gain away. Cool this morning – hat, gloves and puffy weather. Breakfast talk consists of weather and discussions of our respective GI tracts.
1740. Today has been… trying. I’m huddled inside the gear shed; Erin and Shari are in their tent. Though we had blue Continue reading “Notes from the Field: 15 August 2013, Day Three” →
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