Day 45 – Zero in Kennedy Meadows

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Today was a zero day in Kennedy Meadows. While spending time in the general store of Grumpy Bear and Kennedy Meadows, I had conversations with many other hikers I had met in recent weeks.

Hot Mess and I launched our tents quite close to the latrine. On a couple of occasions, I helped her cover the distance between the tents and the latrine so that she did not have to put a lot of weight on her foot. Crossroad, another wounded hiker who was recovering in Kennedy Meadows and driving the ferry while he was there, tried to find crutches for a hot disaster but was not successful. I am the morning crossroad, I have a walk in a service golf cart from the camp area to the main area of ​​the restaurant.

Hot Mess returned to the general store before I did. When I got there, I had found a trip and was on his way home. A few days later (I am late to turn my daily notes into something understandable by others), I heard from Hot Mess that his foot was really broken. Then, in total, he managed to walk about 50 miles on a broken foot!

I camped last night in Grumpy Bear and neither the morning there. I was occupying important things such as a huge breakfast, laundry and cargo electronics. I also visited Triple Crown Outfitters to the side. I found a couple of small things to buy, but I didn’t feel that I needed to change a lot of equipment.

Cover on the grumpy bear

Modeling Chic hiker on a warm laundry day

Around midday, I took the ferry to the Kennedy Meadows store. A few minutes after he dropped, the ferry returned from the head of the path and crossroad found me with the trekking posts he had left in the truck. Thanks Crossroad! Crossroad is actually a hiker who was letting a injury heal. Instead of simply going crazy without doing anything, she was helping leading crazy hikers in the ferry. It became evident that Crossroad is another of those people with whom we are lucky to cross the trails.

Crossroad

In the store, I spent a little more sewing more to make it easier and safer to attach things to my backpack. An advantage/disadvantage of being in the store is that you could always walk only 50 feet to buy a cold or other ice cream (I am not sure how many I ate here).

There were also a couple of friendly dogs and a boneless cat. Okay, the cat was not really boneless, but he was resting so peacefully on a table in the store that he asked me if it was just a stuffed cat. But finally I saw him move, so I know it was real.

Cat completely relaxed

If I didn’t know better, I would have suspected that someone simply returned the table

While sitting on the store deck, I occasionally listened to someone to say: «Coda!»

Someone would quickly pick up the cowbell and begin to sound it while all the others applauded the newcomers who crossed the parking lot.

General store deck

I updated and published some blog posts in an attempt to get caught. That was complicated by the Wi-Fi that dripped my connection frequently. It was difficult to stay connected enough time to load photos.

I spent the night camping behind the store with the intention of breakfast there before moving on to the path.

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