Today was mostly miserable. The segments were loose rocks that climbed up and down a lot. I fucking hated most of it. I hiked at least as much as I biked, probably more. Today really tested me and I kind of feel like I failed. I spent a lot of the day pissed off at being on trail, and cursing the fucking trail for being a piece of shit.
The day was somewhat redeemed by the kindness of strangers. As we had wrapped up the shit segment, we had at most 40 oz of water between the three of us. We bumped into a friendly couple from Colorado Springs who had just finished up their weekend trip. They had several gallons of water left over that they let us use. At this point it was getting pretty dark outside. I don't know what we would have done without that. Then, about a mile into the next segment, someone left a cooler full of soda on the trail. I took a root beer. We rode another mile up, in the dark at this point, to the campsite.
A little backtracking now - Last night it started to rain as we made our way to camp, and continued through most of the night. The tent was water-proof enough, but my shoes got fairly soaked. It was cold this morning and the trail was wet and muddy. Not exactly a great way to start the morning. We also bumped into a group of through hikers headed north, two girls and a guy probably about our age. Tomorrow we do some trail and then get on the road for a long detour.
Matt prepares some beef teriyaki for dinnerLocation: Somewhere early on segment 18
Distance Covered: about 345 miles
Elevation: about 9650 feet
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