Campsite at Lassen NP southern boundary (mile 1346) to Chester (mile 1331)
Total PCT miles hiked: 907
Due to our early start Keith (Starman) and I arrived at the Sierras when there was still a lot of snow, and decided it wasn’t safe to attempt a crossing given my skill level. We elected to flip up to northern California and hike southbound (SoBo) back to where we left off near Lone Pine – giving the snow a chance to melt out. During this flip the PCT milage will be counting down, but I’ll include a tally of our total milage hiked so that you can keep aprised of our progress in a linear fashion.
As we were packing up this morning Keith noticed that he’d lost his sun glasses. We searched the camp to no avail. So we hiked back the four miles to where he last saw them, instead of making actual progress towards Chester, CA. Spoiler alert: we didn’t find his glasses. But! I decided to draw a comic depicting what must have really happened to them. All I can say is that there is one rad looking bird out there.
In other news, what am I even doing with my life.
This is the most probable explanation. 😀
At first, I thought you were nuts for hiking an extra 8 miles to find his sunglasses. Then I thought, I’m basically handicapped without mine, and they don’t have the ability to go buy another $10 pair from Target.
I totally would have hiked an extra 8 miles for sunglasses.
To be fair, I still think we were nuts for doing that.
This is what I will picture happened to every single missing item for the rest of my life. Aw yissss.