Today’s goal is Sierra City. According to Soho, there is a gut-buster waiting for us there (1lb Cheeseburger). He seems inspired.
The morning started with a nice lake view.
And some clear trail.
Down and over a creek.
Little mostly easy walking for a change. The Altitude slow drops from 7k to around 4.7k at Haypress Creek.
This was cool. That spill way was raging.
We ran into a about 15 local retired women doing a day hike. Apparently they get together every Wednesday to do a 10 to 15 miler together. A few of their husbands get volunteered to do transportation duty. I asked why they guys didn’t join. Apparently they are golfing. Heh.
Soho and I lunched on this peak.
My girlfriends showed up to take a little break as well. We chatted for a while then they left…..a set of trekking poles. I loaded them on my pack and we set off after them.
Now where have those ladies gotten off to?
And here they are having lunch.
Soho and I hung out here for a bit filling water. The grateful ladies started offering us food. Oranges, grapes, cherries. Yum. Some other gals offered up cookies, m&m’s, etc which we were most definitely not interested in. Those gals were so disappointed. It was like attentive Mom’s getting turned down for bad cooking. They didn’t get the hiker cravings…..last thing I need is more candy.
I was hoping to yogi a ride from them at the exit point for Sierra City, but found out they were taking a different route. Since we cleaned them out of anything edible, it was time to leave.
Hit the Haypress Creek bridge and lounged around here for a while to wait out a little of the heat and eat some more. I feel asleep. Soho fidgeted. I’m an teaching him the ways of laziness.
We had another 4 miles to town, so we hit it again around 2. All downhill, but damn hot.
Highlight of the day was hitting the North Yuba River. This thing is raging.
While we were standing there taking it all in, a couple of guys with kayaks show up. They are wearing armor, helmets, and look ready for business. I just stared at them….no way those guys are going to do this. They sort of shrugged and walked past us and put in just below the bridge. I got a video of them going over. It was impressive.
After our emasculation, we sauntered off to the highway. Tried for 10 minutes to get a ride and was just starting to walk when a guy pulls up in an Audi. We rode into town in style. On they way we passed some poor assed hiker walking up the hill from town. Found out later his name was Canada Joe. We will meet him again.
Two gals ended up getting the last room in the lodge we wanted to stay in, so on a whim we checked out this odd place called River Haven. What a great choice. It is a house owned by a gal named Susan who rents 2 rooms + some outdoor tent/bunks. Note on the door said come in an make yourself at home. We did…for 4 hours until she showed up. Caveman and Hot Lips are staying here with us.
Caveman has a load of stories. He has hiked to Everest base camp and had a good one about the flight from Napal. I guess the landing spot was socked in, so the airplane flew to a couple alternates, couldn’t land, then a hole opened up, he turns around and lands, in an empty dirt strip. He tells everyone on the plane that they may have to sit there for…..get this….a couple of days. One of the guides with Caveman says that he can get a helicopter for $200 per person if they want out. A few hours later this nice Bell chopper lands and takes them to their destination.
This is why I love the under developed world 🙂
We did 16 today. Our mileage sucks a bit, but at least we are getting through this snow. Tomorrow is a nasty climb out of town.