Up early again to try to beat the heat of the day for the rest of our road walk around the fire closure. There were 8 of us hikers that were sticking together for this road section this morning. We don’t typically hike with a group so this was a fun change. A girl in this group likes to take a short break every hour so we did that too until we got to a water source we didn’t need and hiked on to the point we could get back on trail. A truck did stop to ask us if we needed a ride but we were only 1.5 miles out so we said no thanks and kept going. It was getting very hot by this point so the shade at the trailhead was a nice spot to have lunch.
We rested at our lunch spot for a while and then decided we needed to get these last few miles done to Hikertown so we could rest. It was so crazy hot when we headed out. Another couple hikers who had left before us were posted up in the tiniest bit of shade a mile in having underestimated the heat. We pushed on and arrived at Hikertown to find lots of hikers we knew. Our plan was to get a “room” and sleep until 2:30am before hiking the aqueduct. It appeared all the rooms were taken but Pricepoint helped us find the woman in charge to get the last room.
Our room was a weird, dusty, storage trailer with a sleeper couch and a blowup mattress. It was fine except it was at least 100 degrees inside this stuffy metal box. We tried to open the two windows and the door to air it out but the wind was blowing so hard it was knocking things off walls. We were able to rinse out some clothes and finally got to lay down around 9. I barely slept because of the wind, other hikers being loud, and the fact that the sleeper sofa was angled to the center.
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