Day 191

Day 191 (pct 81): 34 miles

I actually got up on time at 4:30 with the help of bumping some tunes to get me going. Hammer got up and went back to sleep for a while as usual. It was a day of constant short steep ups and downs. We caught Tuna, a hiker that we’ve been chasing for quite some time. And later in the day got caught by Terminator, some guy that apparently has been chasing us for a while.

I ended up getting into town around 6:30 and pounded a 21” pizza with hammer. We ended up staying there longer than expected and getting less things done than we needed cause we were chatting with some cool sobo hikers for a while. I love talking to sobos. They’re so young and full of vigor. I just feel like I get the shit beat out of me everyday by the trail but they haven’t reached that point yet. They’ll get there.

We got back on trail around 9:00 and knocked out 4 miles of steep climbing before setting up camp. We were both still wired from too much caffeine from some dr peppers but didn’t want to push it and ruin tomorrow by staying up too late.

When we were probably less than 100 yards from camp I tripped on a root sticking out of the ground I didn’t see and ate shit. It was a rough fall. My body kept moving forward but my feet were frozen so my body slammed into the ground. My jaw hurt a little bit but all was well.

Song of the day: November-Tyler the creator