Today was a short down hill to Middle Fork of the Feather River.   On the way there were some balloons laying on the trail.  I left them for Soho.

Soho caught up with me later with this

Soho is such the boy scout.   Picking up trash and packing out his poo paper.      

The Feather river is a big-un.

Soho and I had lunch on the bridge then napped on and below it to wait out the heat.    Here is the evidence. 

It was a cool spot.   There were huge butterflies floating all over the place doing their thing.   Water was peaceful.   No mosquitoes.    I took off at 1:30 to start the climb.   Soho was 45 minutes behind me. 

Our destination is called Lookout Rock which is next to a spring.    Something doesn’t get the name “Lookout” whatever unless there is a big climb preceding it.   So…

Got passed by some kids from Israel and then….

Until finally 

Made camp up here.   We were getting mobile service so I called Alice and Mom to say hi.    Great spot.   There were folks rolling through most of the day.    Got to met this Czech dude named Bam Bam, he cowboyed on the rock.   

A French gal came by as well and we chatted a bit.   She did the entire high Sierra.   I’m impressed.   The gal is probably 5 foot 3 and 110.   Said she swam across some of the rivers, because they were so deep.   Her trail name?   Deathwish.    Heh.