The Heitman's - Hat creek Rim 8/7/10 7 miles

Veggie came through the back yard this morning letting everyone know that breakfast was ready. That's a good way to wake up!! She and Warner Springs Monty had made a breakfast casserole, cinnamon rolls and my favorite- biscuits and REAL gravy!! He had promised last night he would make some since we were southerners in need of it! Total approval! Loved it!! We hung there until about lunchtime getting our laundry finisthed up, making phone calls home and using trhe internet. It was a fairly chlly morning. We thanked everyone for the awesome hospitality and caught a ride to the store from Dennis, the owner fo the house. He told us a littel history of he and Georgie and how they moved around for a while and later found the property and built their cabin. We bought some lunch at the store and of course had to have some ice cream to get us going. We then caught a ride to the trailhad by antoher very nice man and started walking. We checked out the "Subway Caves" that are huge caves formed by lava many years ago. It was pretty amazing. We decided to camp close to the water cache, since our 26mile stretch tomorrow has no water. Set up, hung out with Dude and Trouble for a bit and time for bed. -KB