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Day 5: To Know the Difference (mile 34/211)
Moving slow; I accept that the pack weight is just the weight. I love these places I'm trekking through, and will be unlikely to come
Night 4: Ecosystem
It was a great sleep. I figured out putting my "pillow" inside the sleeping bag hood. I had to wrestle my way back out of the bag to pee in the dark,
Day 4: Heavy Meadows (mile 27.5/211)
Hardest day yet, and a bit grindy. It was hot hot proper hot. I decided to wait til I got to the tuolumne meadows visitors center to use a
Night 3: Hard Rock Cafe
I'd pitched the tent on hard rock not too far from the lake, and I felt like I was awake all night. But I lost hours, so must have slept.
Day 3: Up And Away
Best day so far. Hard climb in the morning, I snacked and watered with a gent from San Francisco, who said having no thoughts at all while hiking
Night 2: Choosing The Bear
I got into my sleeping bag very early, while it was still light. There was plenty of space for other hikers to pitch tents if they came along
The big burndown (mile 11/211)
I maintained my pattern of walking from shade patch to shade patch, but through the big burndown there was hardly any shade, no foliage to interrupt
nature list #1
Nature list from day one. Please ID any of these in the comments?1. Big whirring insects I thought (from the sound) might be rattlesnakes.
JMT start (mile 6 or 7/211)
I chose a tree stump in the shade to finish re-strapping plasticised accoutrements to the outside of my pack. I hadn't thought out a system
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Yosemite [Mile 0/211]
This is going to change me. I welcome it. Over a decade ago, my sister and I walked England's Coast To Coast path (it's a small country) - and