Alpine Camping

Miles: 13 Try not to eat all your food on first day challenge. difficulty: impossible. I’ve been going to chow town so much I need to remind myself to not eat everything at once! I start out with my food in a garbage bag and have to eat enough to fit it in my bear bag at the end of the day to hang it. Hiked a lot with Modelo again. It’s been a month since we hiked together. Magellan, Modelo, Geronimo (cool Eastern European guy who looks like an antagonist in an action movie), Scary, Zero, and Green are all camping in a really cool alpine forest microbiome. It’s like normal trees during our all day climb then suddenly bang, tall old pine trees and soft mulchy ground. I’m camping at the exit to where we hike tomorrow which is like a Christmas tree maze. This has to be the best tent city yet. Today was a better than average day. Had trail magic and got to hike in a group mostly. We also all took a mid-day sun nap on the top of one of the mountains we climbed. The excitement for the Trail…