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So, Day 17. I hiked right down to Muir Path Ranch, the place my massive white bucket of resupply meals and so forth was ready for me. The hiker alternate system on the MTR porch was a factor of magnificence – a free library of necessities and others organised neatly in buckets. Breakfasts, lunch/dinner, nut-based snacks, oatmeal (sealed packets solely), medical/first support, wipes, helpful not-broken gear, and so forth. You understand I tossed all my oatmeal sachets straight into that bucket – on path, I can’t even bear the sight of the stuff. I donated my spare sun shades (that I’d mailed out pondering I might need damaged the unique pair by this level within the path), some compeed I didn’t want. I picked up some Benzalkonium Chloride antiseptic wipes, which rely as a reassuring deal with. Somebody’s dehydrated creme brulee in a transparent ziploc. I grabbed a half-bag of dried tangerine slices and compulsively ate them within the solar as I unpacked and repacked my canister and my rucksack. The alternate system felt uncapitalist and considerable. From and to every in keeping with means and want.
“An uncommon system you may have there” mentioned a PCT hiker as I strapped the outside-the-pack issues to the surface of the pack. “Can I really feel your pack? I’m curious”. We weighed out on the fishhook scale dangling from the MTR porch – the opposite hikers had been within the 30-odd pound vary. I’d meet some who had been within the 20s with per week’s meals. My (vastly lowered) pack got here in at 47lb. And I used to be off into the recent afternoon.
Every valley and move has its personal really feel and magnificence. The Kings Canyon valley is extra verdant, with an enormous speeding creek down beneath within the literal canyon. The path skirts cliffs, a bit vertiginous at occasions. I met a hiker going north with a proper decrease leg gash – clear and therapeutic. I gave him a BZK wipe and he requested about frostbite and confirmed me his white numb fingertips. I’m going as much as the upper elevations – there aren’t any actual stops from right here to the tip of the path, and if I can choose up the day by day mileage, I would end on this food-reload.
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