Day 95 – Walk my own walk

I camped for a beautiful lake last night. While I was preparing, I saw more prominent and flyer for the first time from Kennedy Meadow South. We were all very happy to see and share stories. I have been a couple of days ahead of them for a long time, but they are beginning to increase their miles while I am limiting mine. I was happy to see them, but I will probably not see them again.

I saw many new faces in the camps around the lake, but I think everyone is walking even Seiad Valley today. Anyway, there is nothing to do there, and I don’t like crowds anyway, so I am planning to walk 21 miles today to a public camp only 6 miles from the damn valley. I will clean and replenish there tomorrow, and then I will make as much long and hard ascent of the valley as I can.

From my gaze to the map this morning, it seems that today it begins with a climb of two or three miles, and then descends most of the rest of the day. While they descend they are not too steep, it should go quite fast. I hope to have right, because with that in mind, I slept and did not return to the road until almost 7:30.

I have to admit that I am a little jealous of the people who make days of 27 to 30 miles. I thought I would be in the camp of people doing those miles for now, but I suppose that my aged body simply cannot take it. I am sure that as I get to Oregon, I will try to stretch the limits of mileage and see how recovery is like. Meanwhile, I’m still well on the way to finishing my mid -September even with multiple zeros in Ashland.

Taking a break for a snack and to filter water, and I feel very good. I have already learned a lot on this walk. When I decided to do the PCT, I worried that there were too many people around. Finally, I decided that I should meet people along the way, but in no way, I once wanted to be part of a family of trails. I met people, some of them more than others. I made a Sporadic Trail family with Snap, Upstream and Lightning McQueen, anyway. It was fun, but in the end, not my walk. In the desert, I passed many people. Now that I am in northern California, many people are happening to me. I have always talked about walking on my own walk, but my brain did not always agree. Finally, I feel it is. I walk when I walk, I stop when I stop. I still have the goal of reaching the border in mid -September, but I don’t need to do it with anyone around someone who only needs to touch that monument and finish what I started.

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