Another long day with big waterless stretches. We started our hike with just about a liter of water each. The next source according to Halfmile’s app was about 7 miles north, but Yogi’s book had some info on a good spring in the next road crossing. We were glad to see that it was right.

Getting up in the morning, we went to the motel’s continental breakfast. It wasn’t much, but I had some cornflakes, a danish and drank orange juice and got chocolate.

What an awful night. The worst on the trail so far. My tent’s netting zipper failed on me again, and I couldn’t get it closed during the night. And there were plenty of mosquitoes at the fish hatchery. The night was also very warm, so I slept only in my silk liner through most of it. Which probably helped the mosquitoes to bite me. I awoke many times during the night, and on several occasions turned on my headlamp and hunted at least 5 mosquitoes inside my tent, every time. When the morning came, I welcomed it.

What a long long and hot day.

Today we’ve hiked a long day. Luckily, it was mostly overcast, so even though it was hot, it could have been much worse.