June 24, 2012
Day 60
Miles: 21
Total Miles: 907
I hiked mostly alone today the 21 miles to Red's Meadow Resort - another packing station. The blowdowns in this section of the trail are astonishing! The trail crews have most of the trees cleared from the trail - and I am lucky for that because it would be almost impossible to continue through this section otherwise with the devastation I have seen. I think only pictures can tell the story...
A large section of previously burned forest was devastated by the winter storms and trees were snapped in half like toothpicks.
Other very large and healthy trees were up-rooted and lay across the trail for miles - often piled on top of each other several layers deep! These trees are HUGE and the pictures do not show the size of the trees very clearly.
but I crossed over 900 trail miles...
and met a really dirty hiker at Red's Meadow...
and enjoyed a delicious meal at the Red's Meadow Cafe of chicken fajitas, black beans and rice! i also enjoyed a hot-spring fed concrete hot tub with Weather Carrot and Bobcat. They went fully nude. I kept my boxers on. Maybe if I get to know them a little better...
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