pct day 16 - 05/21/13

so i woke up to talk among the other hikers at silverwood of a mcdonalds at the i-15 crossing. it has been a very long time since i ate at a mcdonalds, but i must say that the calories were very much appreciated. i ate some food that i would rather never think or speak of again in my life (unless there is another mcdonalds on the trail, of course) and then flew up 4000 feet to gobblers knob campground. it was only 18:30 and i was unimpressed so i pulled out my topo maps. i discovered that another camping area was only 8 miles up the trail and that if i made it i would have hiked 100 miles in three days, so of course i took off. i was so in to the hike that i did the 8 miles and 1000 feet in under two hours. i have never felt so strong in my life. to just let go and not think about the dark, or my fatigue, or achy feet was just awesome.

here are some pics/videos from day. the first is a great area on the descent down to i-15. (enjoy, auntie k, lol)

these pics are of the cliffs i just hiked passed from up above, if that makes any sense . . .









this next video is just me being the total dork that i am fully enjoying the sounds created by this hideous manmade structure. my lesson for today is in always finding the beauty in every thing. i feel that humans have a lot to learn in living in harmony with the divine mother that has created and maintains this beautiful world, but there is still beauty to be found in even the ugliest and most mundane of human inventions. just beautiful sound from a corrugated metal tube under some train tracks . . .

37 miles from silverwood lake to guffy campground. 365 miles total.

- tribhu (tree-boo)