Miles: 24.4
Total: 1379.3
Sights: The Priest Mountain
We had a really nice night camping at Harpers Creek -we had decided that it was simply too cold the night before. Man, what a difference a tent can make! We were as snug as two bugs in a rug. And the bugs were as snug as...bugs in a rug also.
We had a pretty good 3000 for climb up "the Priest". It was fairly well graded for the first two thousand feet but got steeper after that.
Oh! We met this hunter early on who was out looking for a lost hunting dog, a puppy actually. His brother was helping him and they were going up and over the mountains looking for him because the dog has on a tracking collar. Sure enough we met his brother on our ascent and he had this thing that looked like a little lightning rod. Anyways, he had the weirdest request: that we look out for his list pack of cigarettes and bury them in a conspicuous way neat some particular rocks at a road crossing. We thought this was really funny, but we agreed to look out for both their puppy and his cigarettes. Low and behold, not to far from the area he told us to stash them, we see a pack of Winstons. We carried then until the specified road and built a little rock house for them. I hope he finds them!
The rest of the day was pretty good, but Shannon hada pretty good fall and cut her nose and forehead a bit. It looks like it its not too bad and luckily we are now carrying a full tube of neosporin.
We came across our first apple trees today and took a few for dessert. We tried our hand at making campfire applesauce which was pretty fun. The apples were pretty tart though so it was hard to make do without any sugar.
We have the shelter all to ourselves tonight. This place is .6 miles from the trail so I'm not too surprised about that. We are stopping into the town of Buena Vista tomorrow morning and we'll do less miles than we've been doing as of late, which will be nice. Our feet are starting to feel the miles.
Total: 1379.3
Sights: The Priest Mountain
We had a really nice night camping at Harpers Creek -we had decided that it was simply too cold the night before. Man, what a difference a tent can make! We were as snug as two bugs in a rug. And the bugs were as snug as...bugs in a rug also.
We had a pretty good 3000 for climb up "the Priest". It was fairly well graded for the first two thousand feet but got steeper after that.
Oh! We met this hunter early on who was out looking for a lost hunting dog, a puppy actually. His brother was helping him and they were going up and over the mountains looking for him because the dog has on a tracking collar. Sure enough we met his brother on our ascent and he had this thing that looked like a little lightning rod. Anyways, he had the weirdest request: that we look out for his list pack of cigarettes and bury them in a conspicuous way neat some particular rocks at a road crossing. We thought this was really funny, but we agreed to look out for both their puppy and his cigarettes. Low and behold, not to far from the area he told us to stash them, we see a pack of Winstons. We carried then until the specified road and built a little rock house for them. I hope he finds them!
The rest of the day was pretty good, but Shannon hada pretty good fall and cut her nose and forehead a bit. It looks like it its not too bad and luckily we are now carrying a full tube of neosporin.
We came across our first apple trees today and took a few for dessert. We tried our hand at making campfire applesauce which was pretty fun. The apples were pretty tart though so it was hard to make do without any sugar.
We have the shelter all to ourselves tonight. This place is .6 miles from the trail so I'm not too surprised about that. We are stopping into the town of Buena Vista tomorrow morning and we'll do less miles than we've been doing as of late, which will be nice. Our feet are starting to feel the miles.
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| a campfire! |
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| The priest. A very tiring climb. |
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| The hidden Cigarettes |
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