Our Sabbath this week was on Saturday. We did the normal food shopping and laundry, but it was like the Sabbath because we watched three 2-hour sessions of our world wide church general conference.
The forecast is calling for heavy rain Monday night and Tuesday. In order to sleep in a shelter Monday night we needed to hike 29 miles on Sunday and Monday. Today we did 16.3. New PB for us. We hiked the last 30 minutes and pitched the tent in the dark, but we made it. Tomorrow we will hike 13 to the shelter and beat the rain.
Signs along the trail are our friends. Hiking every day is as much a mental challenge as it is physical. When we are close to a campsite or some other destination it can get real discouraging real fast when we think we should be there by now, but we aren't. The brain says you certainly should be there by now.
To keep the brain in check we use a watch to estimate about how far we have hiked. Knowing how fast we walk on a certain terrain, and using signs and the guidebook for distances, we can pretty accurately guess when we will arrive. What else are we going to do all day but run the math in our heads.
Stone stairs are also are friends. Trail maintainers volunteer thousands of hours to build beautiful rock steps to manage steep slopes. Of course they maintain the trail and shelters in tons of other ways too. Stone stairs are our friends.
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The forecast is calling for heavy rain Monday night and Tuesday. In order to sleep in a shelter Monday night we needed to hike 29 miles on Sunday and Monday. Today we did 16.3. New PB for us. We hiked the last 30 minutes and pitched the tent in the dark, but we made it. Tomorrow we will hike 13 to the shelter and beat the rain.
Signs along the trail are our friends. Hiking every day is as much a mental challenge as it is physical. When we are close to a campsite or some other destination it can get real discouraging real fast when we think we should be there by now, but we aren't. The brain says you certainly should be there by now.
To keep the brain in check we use a watch to estimate about how far we have hiked. Knowing how fast we walk on a certain terrain, and using signs and the guidebook for distances, we can pretty accurately guess when we will arrive. What else are we going to do all day but run the math in our heads.
Stone stairs are also are friends. Trail maintainers volunteer thousands of hours to build beautiful rock steps to manage steep slopes. Of course they maintain the trail and shelters in tons of other ways too. Stone stairs are our friends.
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