This morning I got up and that Doe is still roaming around the camp site.   Soho is all pissed off because another mouse chewed through his tent last night.   He chewed on his trail mix bag, took a couple shits in his tent, then left.   Disappointed, apparently.   

That makes the second mouse attack on Soho.   A few days ago he woke up with a mouse running around inside on his bug netting.   By the time he got his headlamp on the thing ran out the hole it made.   Soho borrowed some more magical unicorn duct tap to patch his tent up.   It is starting to look pretty ghetto. 

This doe is annoying me off, so I hit her with a rock.   She barely even moved.   Soho thinks we can hunt the deer around here with a baseball bat.   

There are not too many pictures for today.   It was a a nasty climb up to a tree enclosed peak.   At the top, instead of a beautiful vista, I treated to a hiker named Shaggy eating a granola bar.

At least there is water everywhere.   

Soho is dragging ass today.  His feet and ankles are hurting him.   I’m actually feeling pretty good.   Once again my feet have healed up overnight.   I am still amazed at how bad I feel before bed and how much better I feel by mid morning the next day.   The first 30 minutes every morning is a struggle to get all the bits working, but after the stretching a little walking I’m usually back to 100%.

Made it to Squaw Valley creek after a long decent.   It is flowing big.   No campsites here, so I had to head up to the trail head about .1 mile off trail.   Shaggy found a spot above the bridge on some rocks.   Just enough room for a sleeping pad.   Hope he doesn’t roll off in the night.

  Soho and I are cozy on this one.   Only spot we could find next to the river, which is roaring.   Gonna sleep good tonight 🙂

21 miles today.  I’ve been talking to some other hikers and they have found that they can do a couple big mile days then need a smaller day to recover.    Probably going to need to follow the philosophy.