Day 46 – Leave Kennedy Meadows

15.8 miles
By Kennedy Meadows (Mile 703, UND 6427)
To South Fork Kern River (Milla 717.6, UND 7833)
Ascent 3550
Descend 1675
Steps 34344

I scribble some random thoughts …
The staff was very friendly.
They had good food for refueling options.
The roof/picnic area was excellent for time and socialize.
The grid chef was incredible, handling both the kitchen and the delivery to the people (literally running through the roof to find where the food should be delivered).
I would like the power of power strips not to go out at night. He made it harder to obtain completely loaded devices.
I felt like there were not enough baths for demand

While she was in the store, the mother of the great family said her girls continued singing «oat tea.» At least it fosters habits that should be useful. When my friend tried to plant ear worms in my head as she dehydrated the food, she realized that she would end up doing the same every time I explained my eventual path of path.

My morning plan was breakfast and go out quickly. Like many things in life, it took more than I planned. I talked to other hikers. I published another blog post to fill a vacuum (before, I missed publishing one day). I also took care of a couple of other things online.

Then, to save some distance on my legs, I waited for transport instead of walking towards the beginning of the path. That took a little longer than I expected. But transport arrived and was walking from the beginning of the path at 10:45.

Leaving the path

Shortly after starting, I arrived at the Kennedy Meadows camp, where someone provided magic of fruits and soft drinks. Kennedy Meadows had not completely satiated my hunger for hikers, so I stopped a little and talked to the Angels.

Bridge through the Kern River

Crossing the Kern River

Given my great breakfast and late start, I didn’t have lunch until I walked 10 miles at 15:30 (Elevation 8000). My legs have felt strong all day until now.

Lunch place

The earth has seemed that it is in transition between the desert and the mountains. It is colder with some higher streams and trees. But there is still a lot of land without trees, an occasional cactus (itching with yellow flowers).

I met a group of young people from Los Angeles for a backpackpack of the 5 -day school. I was a little jealous that my high school has never done something like that. But I couldn’t feel too shame for my education, since I made a 10 -day backpacking trip with explorers at that age.

Becks Prado reminded me of Kerrick Meadow in the northeast of Yosemite. It is a high meadow with very little growth of the trees, but with snow -covered mountains visible in the distance.

My legs felt incredibly well today. They are simply not very tired. We have climbed more than 8400 feet shortly before falling to the Kern River.

I have experienced with walks without poles. I have put the posts on the loops freshly sewn in my package, which allows me to establish the package without the posts from their headlines. Of course, that does not mean that there are no complications. When I went to take off my pack, I discovered that the chamber of my camera was executed between one of the posts and the package, effectively by the package. In the future, I have to be more careful with my camera strap when I put the posts on this support. Like I am when I try to remove my backpack making sure that my camera’s strap is just my neck and not around my neck and on the shoulder.

Oh, I just got out of some trees to another beautiful view. This was in the Monache Meadow area, which is where I camped. I found a tent site to a shape of the Kern River where I could look on the river in the mountains at sunset. And the sunset was beautiful.

Kern River’s hiker bridge in the camp area

Sunset from outside my store

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