Day: June 19, 2008

• Hey from Lone Pine(mile745). #
• I’m laying in a motel eating fruit. My clothes are in the wash and I have retreived my stuff from the post office. #
• I need to keep working to get my town chores done but I’m feeling the town melt and getting sleepy. #
• I have been moving all day. If this were a hiking day I would have got a lot of miles in. #
• My clothes have been resoaked in permethrin–renewing my cone of death. #
• I have packaged my backpack up and have it ready to mail off for repair and I have received my other pack in the mail. #
• I have bought a new lavender Mountain Hardwear canyon shirt in hopes that my new improved look will attract a ride back to the trailhead. #
• I’m tired. I’ll get out tomorrow but probably not first thing tomorrow. #
• I had just done enough. 30 mile days to pay off that zero day I took in Idywilld and now I’m behind again. #

The trail has been hot and ridiculously dry.  We are humans not camels. 

I made it in and out of Kennedy Meadows in just over an hour.  That’s a record for me.   I planned it that way because I was afraid that the herd would be there, but all was tranquil and I wished I could have stayed loner. 

I hiked down trail pass last night and caught a ride in to Lone Pine from 2005 hiker, Apple, this morning.  

Hitching has been really hard lately.  I don’t know how I’ll get out of this town.   I have the phone number of a guy who will give me a ride for 40 dollars.

 I’m thinking, buying a new shirt might help me get a ride.  My current shirt is a torn and stained once white eco-mesh Rail Riders shirt with not one useful pocket on it.   

To get in and out of Tehachapi, I tried to hitch in the blazing sun till the police came by and gave me a ride–that happened both ways. 

 I better go now and finish up my town chores.