Tuolumne! Word is there are burgers and shakes and groceries and bathrooms, campers have been excited to tell the boys. And until today, it was abstract. Today we woke, charged phone and cameras, dried the tent (we were covered in frost this morn.. sun warmed by 9:00a, to about 70 degrees) and took off. The trail today was flat (!) downhill (!) and spoiled us. The boys told all of the hikers coming up from the trailhead " good job! There's some downhill soon!" That sort of encouragement really helped us.
We hit the trailhead by 2:00p, and took a shuttle bus to the grill. Totally cheating, but also a really weird experience after pooping in the woods and licking oatmeal off our bowl. Caveman came after 3 days. Nate ordered a gigantic double cheeseburger, Max had a small burger and I had a burrito. We all were sick in the belly after.
Resupplied our bear canisters, bringing my bag back up to full weight, and then ran into a couple of guys who we saw the first night. Shout out to Dan and Walt. We had to eat ice cream, and then followed Dan and Walt to a backpackers camp- which is also more civilized than what we were used to (after just two nights on our own). And now we sit reading, before our long day (hope hope) tomorrow.
