Saturday, May 3, 2014

Day 28 (The Night Hike)

So this day started off at Mid night for me. Me and Sweet as a Peach are about 13 miles into our hike already. Just to give you an idea on how this night hiking works. You can't see shit. You have a head lamp that lights up a cone of area and everything else is completely 100% dark. You are tripping over roots and rocks all the time. You feel like you are being followed by animals that want to kill you. Movement all around you at all times. You see eyes and hear sounds that make you want to just run. We hiked 3 more hours after are first break and stopped to eat some actual meals. We stopped right outside a shelter but did not go in or close enough for people to see us because we didn't want to wake anyone up or be dicks about it. We sat on the trail and had some food and kept on pushing. We are about 20 miles in by now and completely exhausted. We started to eat everything with sugar and energy to keep us awake. Between 3am -7am the forest/trail started to really creep us out. I think it had to do with the major lack of sleep and the paranoia that was hitting us all night. It was around 10am when we made it into town. We managed to get an extra burst of energy and hangout with people in hot springs before crashing. The town is amazing and I can't wait to hangout and take two zero days and DO NOTHING!

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