As planned, I arrived at the early camp last night, shortly after 4 pm I relaxed, read, ate, ate a little more and slept a lot. I also did something. I do not do it very frequently and I look at the comments from afar and I was surprised to see the General Tuoluomne Meadows store three days ago. That means that Costop is not needed, it did not have a potential hiker box with fuel in the post office. I can intervene, get some fuel for my stove, a little fuel for my body, and then return to the road.
After my experience in the passes yesterday, I will worry less about the pass locations when I dictated my trail miles. We always say, walk, your own walk on the PCT, but in the mountains, it is easy to fall into the group of group thought of hitting each early pass, and then walking until you can reach the next pass early. Until I bite again, I’m going to walk whenever I want, rest whenever I want and campe when, and where I want. I am taking this walk of the mountain passes that have told me what to do for more than a week.
On the other hand, I feel that I just arrived in the Sierra, and there are just over 100 miles until I am in the Northeast PCT section. Be zero about what to expect there. I already do much less research than a typical PCT hiker, but at least I knew a little about what to expect in the desert and the Sierra, even if you only see some YouTube videos. When I have seen YouTubers in the past, I am interested in the desert experience, and especially in the Sierra, and then I had to disconnect them until I arrived in Washington, and the paths I know. I hope to have the opportunity for larger mile days, but there is a limit for how many miles through aging bones can do so in one day. I think it would be fun to reach 100,000 in the morning, which I think will end up being approximately 34 or 35 miles. I think that is feasible given the correct conditions, the weather and, of course, the dream. But that is a problem for a date in the future. Today I think I can make an easy 20, but we’ll see.
The general store was not only open, but the side of the side was also open. I arrived a breakfast burrito and a cinnamon roll, and overcome it with a chocolate bar from the store. I used most of the remaining fuel in my can to overload the new, can I buy? It probably is not the safest, but I have done it before, and I will probably do it again.
I try to be aware of himself. I know that I think too much about things, and no matter how much I try to be adaptable, I think a lot about alternative plans. However, I hope not to seem arrogant, conceited or as a general know everything. I ate my food, surrounded by a handful of PCT hikers who had never seen before. They were talking to a ranger, and they couldn’t stop talking about how hard they were working, how difficult things were and how were nothing less than Olympic athletes. Yes, making enough miles to complete this walk is very strenuous. The parts of the path, I admit, are difficult. I would say that being an Olympic athlete requires an innate skill level, more dedication and perseverance. Walking the PCT requires a nominal sense of self -preservation and perseverance. That’s all. Be careful and walk a lot every day. Maybe there are some organization skills there too, but I would say they are secondary, since you can always ask another hiker what they are doing. These people are walking today on their own walk, and I can’t judge them for that. Iialso realizes that an incredible opportunity. It is seeing almost everything that the west coast has to offer hiking and landscapes. It is an incredible gift that is almost impossible to experience otherwise.
I have no time for a while, and I am not really worried about them. That attitude will probably be counterproductive one day, but today it won’t. My plan for today is to walk until it is almost out of the water, then stop and filter, then repeat until I feel like placing my store. That could be 10 miles, it could be 15, we will see what happens.
I have been thinking about elitism on the PCT during the last 3 miles, and I realized that, as you probably know, I am also guilty. I enjoy immensely walking along this path only with my thoughts. Taking breaks to look at the landscape, wildlife or simply rest next to a current. My Snob ass comes when my deep thoughts are interrupted by hikers, speaking aloud around me, taking me out of my trance and scaring any wild life. It is perfectly well to walk through the PCT for social experience, as I said before, I am not antisocial in any way, but I prefer to spend my excursion time alone, that is my walk, and I should not push that to anyone else. More importantly, I need to learn not to be so fast to judge others just because they think differently than what they do. That, of course, applies everywhere, not just a PCT.
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