Day 35

Day 35: 25 miles

If you know how that Chris Farley sketch goes that’s how I felt today. I was so happy when i started out. The sun finally came out for the first time in a week and the sky was blue instead of gray. I was overjoyed. Then I turned like Chris Farley. Angry.

I couldn’t go more than 20 feet without having to climb over or around a fallen tree. There was a big wind storm last night and it knocked a bunch over I guess. In hindsight, it’s a good thing I stopped early yesterday or I might’ve gotten caught in it. But it was miserable today. I can’t even single out one thing that made me so upset. It wasn’t just branches constantly hitting me in the face, or a branch catapulting one of my trekking poles 20 feet down a ledge, or a tree beginning to slide downhill as I was straddling it to cross over it. I was just in a constant state of being infuriated today. I finally had a beautiful day of weather and just wanted to enjoy it but with how much the trees were slowing me down it was hard to remain calm. I even tried to put on my good vibes playlist to cheer me up but that didn’t work. A slipknot and hard rock day it was. Going by my system of deciding of how good or bad a day is by how often I yell out in anger, this was a very bad day.

Most of the day was walking in crushed ice cubes and ice water again but I eventually did get to walk on some dirt and it felt amazing. It was the first time I felt like i was walking at a good pace in days.

With all the rain and melting ice recently one of the streams I had to cross was much higher than normal so I moved upstream and found a downed log to cross on. I’m always a little nervous doing that because all it takes is one slippery step and I’ll hate my life.

Picture 4 is the trail with fallen trees over it and 5 is the log I crossed on.

Song of the day: Snuff-Slipknot