Day 72

5 Miles

Needing to dry our stuff before we could keep going, we hung everything out on some rocks and let the sun work its magic. It took a few hours so we didn’t get hiking until around noon. We got about 5 miles before it started raining again. We strolled through a meadow that had a giant boulder with an overhang. A couple of hikers were underneath it yelling into it so that the echo would go across the valley. It was kinda neat to hear. The rain picked up as we reached the end of the meadow so we pitched the tent as soon as we found a spot we could use. No need to repeat yesterday’s mistake. We thought the storm would pass, but it didn’t. So, we just made that camp for the night. We had just gotten everything dry that morning and wanted to keep it that way. It was also the second night in a row of using a site that would be trouble if a park ranger found us. Not hitting our mileage for the day meant stretching our food one more day so that we could make up the difference. We decided to make a judgment in the morning to see if the sky looked bad. If it did, we would turn back. Otherwise, we would need to keep pushing forward despite any more storms.