PCT SOBO DAY 66 – ICE CREAM AND A POOL

Day 66

Start: stealthy, mile 1222.6

End: Burney Mountain Guest Ranch, outside Mile 1244.5

Walked miles: 21.9 miles

Last night it was so quiet and calm that I slept like a rock. When I woke up, I tried to leave a little earlier than usual since I wanted to lunch (and ice cream) in the state park Burney Falls and have time to enjoy the guest ranch. Returning to the road, the path with pine needle felt soft under my feet.

The rolled path downhill during the first miles, which allows them to easily pass. I met some nobles who still had the intention of arriving in Canada, but who apparently also spent 5 days being a vortex in the state park. They were definitely having fun and their walk!

As the morning aged, the day continued to warm up. I took a break in the shadow, aware of rattlesnake snakes since I heard they had been seen here, and then continued. After a couple of miles, I heard what sounded like a helicopter. The only thing was that the sound was constant and did not really move anywhere. It seemed strange that a helicopter was in one place for so long.

While still walking, the noise source finally appeared in sight. It was a helicopter, but it was around an area. As I approached, it seemed to have something united from the bottom. Suddenly, the helicopter rose a little more in the air. He wore a wooden power post! It flew and less than a minute later, another came in his place, this time taking a man hanging in the air.

While walking around and under the flight route, the two helicopters continued this dance. When a helicopter had been charged with a power post and flew, another came to do the same. You don’t see that on the road every day!

Soon I arrived at the Lake Britton dam and realized that the area was owned and controlled by the PG & E electric company. Now everything was beginning to make sense! The dam was quite great. He was not the greatest he had seen on a path, but he wasn’t the smallest either.

Once on the other side, I only had a few flat miles to the Burney Falls state park. While walking, a strange smell attacked my nose. I could not say my finger on how it smelled, but it was like a mixture of an oil -based product and a gummy smell. The culprit was a type of plant that was absolutely everywhere. I felt relieved when I finally arrived at the bridge that led to the Burney Falls visitors center and left those floors behind.

When I entered the main area of ​​the park, I realized that I had made an error when they reached a holiday. The place was crazy! There were everywhere people wandering. He was very overwhelming for a solo hiker. I quickly asked for my food and found a picnic table away from chaos. In addition to lunch, I also obtained my expected ice cream cone. Yum!

After about an hour, it was time to leave. Now, it was more hot when I returned to the path. The tree cover was few and distant, so I took my umbrella for a little shadow. Fortunately, the path was flat, so I had to endure the unavoidable heat for a few miles.

When I was about 2 miles from the ranch, I wasn’t sure if I could do it. I was so hot! After a break in the shade of the trees, I put some music and prepared my mind to complete those last miles. And honestly, music gave me the energy I needed to do it all the time. I even wanted to keep walking while entering the ranch.

The other sobos were not there yet, but I got my room, I quickly took a shower and then headed directly to the pool. And it was amazing! I jumped from one place to another between the cooling water and sitting at the heater sun and I had a great time. The other sobos arrived soon and enjoyed passing the pool to the pool until the sun set.

And that is a day in the life of a PCT Sobo hiker!

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