Aug 5

Woke up this morning freezing, my watch read 52 deg. Sunshine and I put our heads together last night to stay as warm as possible,  we took one of the quilts and used it as an underquilt for her hammock while we shared the other quilt inside the hammock. Our camp was on the side of Bromley mtn. about .75 miles on the decent, Really it wasn't a camp at all, just two trees the right distance apart on a steep grade. With it getting dark fast and us begining to get cold we decided that would be home for the night. During the night the wind picked up dramatically, and blew right through our "camp" with a cold furry.

Finally sunshine and I climbed out of the hammock,  about 10:30am and in a rush to start hiking to stay warm. Leaving camp at 11:15 we were on a mission.  20 miles by dark. It was a long shot, usually when we do a 20 we are up early, but not this day. Within the first two miles rusty and toast came walking up...we had stopped for some "brown blazing". (Use your imagination you will figure it out )
After conversing with our friends about extremly serious topics we headed north again. A few more miles went by when we found a bag of linguine noodles by a sign, being that we are always hungry the noodles went north too, a feast of linguine would be our dinner tonight.

   The trail was beautiful,  Baxter peak was a great climb, with amazing views. While climbing the steep rocks up Baxter I was in awe of everything it was perfect. Once we hit the summit the trail turned immediately in a dense spruce fur forest that smelled of Christmas.  After decending Baxter we came to the Shelter that marked 15 miles for the day and it was barely 4pm. We took a quick break loaded up on calories and headed for our last climb for the day. On the ridge line it was beautiful again, another dense pine forest littered with quartz rock. We were approaching the white rocks overlook, before the trail head to the overlook we came across a ton of prayer rocks. It was awesome to see what a bunch of hikers had built. Dark was in our near future,  so we headed the .7 to the Green wall shelter.  The shelter and tent area was all ours for the night. Sunshine set up the hammock as we did the night before, while I made what I like to call an instafire. One second there is no fire and the next there is. We cooked delicious linguine with olive oil and oregano then headef to bed for another big day tomorrow.