Day 130

Day 130 (pct 20): 36 miles

It felt good to get out of my funk today and get back to a good mileage day. There were a couple water caches today so even though there was no natural water most of the day it wasn’t too bad. In the beginning of the day I was in a forest for a while and it was cool so I thought I might be done with the desert but nope. Most of the day turned out to be in the exposed desert. But toward the end of the day I did see the transition in the landscape off in the distance from desert sands to granite and trees.

I was running off and on while going pretty fast today when I was listening to the new J Cole album and David Goggins on joe Rogan. Album was pretty hard and I need to finesse the goggins audiobook somehow. Dude had so many great quotes and a killer mindset. The opening line is one of my favorite.

Today was the first crazy winds I’ve dealt with since New Mexico. It had to be getting 50-60 mph at times. Even as I was going to bed cowboy camping it was still super windy which wasn’t too enjoyable cause I was high up without a ton of shelter from it.

I scared the shit out of another person today when I came up behind him and said hi. He yelled and jumped out of his shoes. I might need to change my name the Baba Yaga.

I thought I might get decapitated for a while today. A goober was flying a drone plane thing close the trail at a million miles an hour and was getting a little too close for my liking.

I started to get some ankle pain toward the end of the day. No certain event just and aching, should hopefully subside

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Song of the day: 95 south-j Cole
New album is pretty darn good