8/10/10

Woke up earlyish this morning after sleeping through the alarm. We packed up and filled up our water at the spigot (you know it's bad/good when campgrounds are civilized.). We stopped by the camp store and got some hot chocolate and postcards. We got started about 9am finally. Had an easy walk to an early lunch at another rock creek under the bridge. We did some math and more planning for the last leg of our adventure. We continued on oin some dense woods. It was overcast all day, which is very unusual. Usually not a cloud in the sky. We stopped at a huge powerline and there was a beautiful view. We met Sheepdog and Sandals, which were southbounding and making a "class of 2010" video. We didn't qualify since we are "section hikers", long story. It started to sprinkle, another surprise, but we continued a while longer through a lot of logged areas. Some clear cut and some selectively harvested. The trail was overgrown towards the end of the day and we ended up camping on a logger's loading site. It's not being used anymore, not the nicest piece of real estate, but it will do. Dinner in the tent and a late bedtime after a late start this morning. Burney Falls was definitely worth the detour. -CM