When it's time to put wet socks and boots on, it take a few deep breaths to mentally prepare that initial shock of cold, wet socks and then sliding feet into squishy wet boots. UGH. We finally start walking around 11am.
We saw lots of mushrooms today.
I decided I better do some Big Foot calling and knocking while I'm out here since this is prime Sasquatch territory! I let off a couple of Whoops and listen to see if I get a response. Nothing. I do some knocking on a tree with my trekking poles. Listen......nothing. Big Foot is smart enough not to be out here in the crappy weather. Keep it Squatchy! Bobo would be proud.
Golden Lakes Patrol Cabin
We are climbing up as usual and I have my head down plugging away. I look up and see a man standing on the side of the trail with giant hedge trimmers in his hand. He is staring at me and doesn't say anything so I feel a little creeped out. When I get paralell to him, he says "Hi, where you headed?" I hesitate because I don't want him to know where I'm staying the night! But I go ahead and say "Golden Lakes." He nods and then says "Can I see your permit?" It dawns on me then as the National Park patch on his sweater comes into focus, that he is a ranger. Oy! Ingrid is the keeper of the permit and we wait for her to ramble up and then dig it out of her pack. We exchange awkward chitchat with this guy and then continue on. He was a little weird. First ranger we have seen in 11 days.
This is what a few days of rain and not brushing my hair looks like. Maybe there's a chance I actually scared Big Foot away?
It's raining and I'm looking at Ingrid from the vestibule of my tent. I have just finished drinking some miso soup to warm up the old bones. Having taken stock of my remaining food stores, I will have just 3 peanut butter and 2 coconut butter packets remaining out of 18 pounds of food. I say I have my food dialed right in. I got a lot of comments about how much food I had and I have essentially eaten it all. I have eaten lower carb on this hike than usual and I have had way more energy than usual. My food throughout the day has been relatively lower carb except for dinner which were mostly the carb heavy Mountain House meals. I have increased my protein and fat intake as well. I'm eating about 2500 calories a day. At home I "attempt" to eat less than 50 net carbs per day but out here it's around 150. Like I said before, all I need to do to have normal sugar numbers is do extreme exercise 8 hours a day. Obviously, that's not gonna happen. I've pasted my food list at the bottom if you are interested. Edited to say: I weighed myself this morning, 2 weeks post hike, and I weigh the exact same as when I started the hike. This tidbit also tells me that my food is spot on.
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Snacks |
| NA | NA | Chicken & Rice | Quest bars, Epic bars, Hidden Valley Protein Bars, zuchinni, strawberries, nuts, dark chocolate, coconut butter, protein powder |
| Eggs | Tuna/Parmasan chips | Lasagna | |
| Protein | Burrito | Teriyaki Chicken | |
| Eggs | Tuna/Parmasan chips | Beef Stew | |
| Quinoa | Chix salad (Packit) | Beef Stroganoff | |
| Eggs | Tuna/Parmasan chips | Chicken & Noodles | |
| Protein | Peanut butter/Flax crackers | Beef Stew | |
| Quinoa | Peanut butter/Flax crackers | Beef Stroganoff | |
| Eggs | Tuna/Parmasan chips | Spag squash | |
| Protein | Burrito | Spag squash | |
| Quinoa | Chix salad (Packit) | Lasagna | |
| Eggs | Peanut butter/Flax crackers | Teriyaki Chicken | |
| Eggs | Peanut butter/Flax crackers | Beef Stroganoff | |
| Quinoa | Tuna/Flax crackers | Chicken & Noodles |
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