Make good decisions (D-6)

If you look closely at the above photo, you might wonder just like I did...why is the big rock not sliding off the bottom rock or rather, when will it slide off? These are the kind of inane questions one asks when one is walking 9-10 hours a day mostly in solitude. On the other hand, walking 9-10 hours/day makes it a busy day (a topic for a later post) and directly to blog at the end of the day. Well, that's my excuse for not updating in a long time. I did say that I would do this occasionally, didn't I?

Day 6 was a pleasant and relatively easy day.

I reached Mike's Place around 4 pm after about 17 miles. Mike's Place is a mainstay in PCT thru-hiker lore. He opens his property to hikers to camp anywhere as well as provides water in huge tanks. I was initially planning to just fill water and proceed on, since the weather was great and there were couple more hours of sunlight left.

Weather when I reached Mike's - clear and sunny. In the foreground, you can see the Spot emergency device that also tracks my progress with an hourly ping.

Mike's property has a collection of interesting (or "junk" depending on your take) articles spread across.

Anyway, the weather forecast to the best of everybody's knowledge was rain/wind during the night. No idea how much and when. I'm any case, though I was tempted to go on, I decided to stay at Mike's for the night. And, boy, am I glad I did 'cos it poured buckets accompanied with high winds overnight. As my mentor and friend, M says, you have to make good and wise decisions, especially in the wilderness. One good decision made!

That was my "luxury" sleeping pad in the swing under the porch

A short day:

Comments

[v] said…

Rock sliding off :D

Did you resist the urge to calculate the extra mass required or slope required for the that rock to slide off?

April 26, 2022 at 7:52 PM

Vipul said…

No temptation to go up and carve your name on that stone Ravi 😀

April 29, 2022 at 7:11 PM

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