| Mile | 808.1 |
| Miles Since Last Update | 20.1 |
| Day | 68 |
Hostel shuttle meant starting at 8 so no night hiking today. 4000ft straight up in 3 miles. Pack is heavy as hell in case I need to stretch this out to 5 days. Hot as fuck already. Ankle feels a fair bit better but this week is going to fucking suuuuuuck.
Ankle started to feel a lot worse as the day drug on and I slowed down hard. I think the dressing is working but it is in a weird spot that is rubbing my skin in a painful way especially as my feet start to sweat like mad since it is back in the 80s. Might try to trim some of it off to see if that helps but need to be real careful as I am 100% out of leuko (Glasgow doesn’t sell leuko or anything really and probably shouldn’t exist).
Got to the 20 mile shelter tho and it is buggy as shit. Opened my food can and I for some reason have meals for 6 days when I should only need 3 total for this stretch, wtf.
Domino, Bilbo, and Rescue (all people from the hostel although I hiked with Domino a bit back in the smokies) are all here kinda. Shelter is on a crazy incline so no one is actually sleeping near it but it has some good hammock trees so the area is all mine.
Next two days are some brutal climbs. Tomorrow is a mountain called “the priest”, and then the following day is a mountain called “three ridges”.