Pasta feed for thru-hikers!
Roasted chicken, corn and asparagus for thru-hikers! It was nice to realize I could still cook something besides dehydrated food, on something besides an alcohol stove.
Smiles says goodbye to the bounce bucket as we downsized our bounce materials.
The U-Haul van turned out to be the score of the trip. Easy to move hiker trash, gear, and the garbage produced by hiker trash from place to place.
Legal? Safe? Probably not. Cozy? Effective? Definitely.
Hikers are a bunch of mooches. I mean, I say that as a hiker and without judgement, but seriously, hikers all try to get through as cheaply as possible... At this point in the trip, we have all realized that we've spent money at a faster rate than expected, and the purse strings are tightening. Anything that could be free or cheap is pursued at all costs. After all, what's the harm in asking, especially when you're asking Smiles and I? Apparently 'no' is one of the last words that enters our vocabulary, especially when it comes to giving rides in the U-Haul. Just an observation, and no hard feelings, but sometimes we just want to be by ourselves and can't!
Anyways, I digress. The zeroes were great - we brunched with King Street and Bird Dog, had a pasta feed with Games, Reason, Lighthouse, and Sunset, and the Wolfpack reunited! My dad shipped out a laptop, which proved to be invaluable in getting blogs updated through the high Sierras. Good times were had by one and all, and we were more than ready to hit the trail again in the popular and beautiful Desolation Wilderness.
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