Day 10 - Late Start, Late Finish
Miles hike today 14. Total miles hiked 120.5.
This morning I had coffee! After a night of thunderstorms waking up dry, warm and refreshed was a wonderful thing. Then I walked to McDonald’s and got the breakfast of champions, Sausage McMuffin!
At 11am we loaded onto the bus, headed back to Wallace Gap and started hiking.
It was a late start because of the shuttle and we knew we had a destination in mind of Wayang Bald shelter, so we started pushing it.
I’ll tell you I’m tired of walking through forest that has been burnt. It makes me sad. When comes through the trees they shake, no, rattle and it sounds like an old lady turning over.
It seemed like today was a day of a lot of road crossings, but sometimes the views of the road really great.
Swinging Dick gap! Who names the standings? But I had to get a picture.
Here’s your photo of the day mom-what do you see?
We had three peaks today and two false peaks. This was a false peak. Let me tell you, when you get up on top and you’re thinking, “Yay! I did it!” only to still have to get up, there’s little bit of disappointment there.
Not a lot of sunshine today and at one point I even had to put on my puffy coat. And let me tell you, I have to be cold to put on the puffy coat because you get so hot hiking that it soon comes off.
And then after walking almost 12 miles we come to the highlight of today! We come over a ridge and we see this paved surface. Notice the white blaze on the trashcan.
So we follow the road. It was leading us to All Fire Watch Tower that was all made of stone.
It was really something beautifully done and unfortunately the fire got to it and destroyed its roof.
But it’s crowning glory was it’s view! Oh Em Gee! So gorgeous! It went on forever. We arrived at this place at 6:20 PM. We could not stay as long as we wanted because camp was still about 3/10 of a mile farther along.
But we got some down time, some great photos and let me tell you we were on top of the world.
Arrived at camp about, I don’t know, 6:45pm and it was so full. Not a good place to pitch a tent. Finally pitched on an incline.
I’m going to regret it…
