Day 7 started with the best hiking weather to date on this journey - cool, some cloud cover, slightly foggy and almost no wind. Almost like a hill station weather in India. Of course, it didn't stay that way for too long becoming sunny and windy before too long. Oh well!
I reached Mary's Oasis with her hand-filled 500-gallon water tank and a place to camp on her property by early evening. Though a lot of hikers we're stopping there to camp, I decided to move on as there was still time left in the day and the tent-sites seemed too exposed to wind.
I was aiming for a campsite near 150 mile mark which had a hole of spots and a bite of the "cliffs". The cliffs looked like rather massive landslides which cut into the mountain-side and pretty enough.
But, the campsite overlooking that was fantastic. It was flat, on top of the ridge, but below a nice set of trees like a sheltered cove (see below).
Campsite to the right and the view of the cliffs to the left
My tent in the sheltered cove:
Btw, there was nobody else around and it was just me on that ridge, and nobody was going to pass that site on the trail in the night. It was the first time in my life that I was camping completely alone. Perfect solitude, or was it lonely? Luckily for me I didn't feel lonely at all and truly enjoyed the solitude. Perhaps it was the right moment and maybe, at a different moment in time, it would not have been so.
My dinner that night - tortillas, dal makhni & 3-in-1 cappuccino.
Caught up the missing miles from D-6:
And, oh yes, 150 miles done:
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Also, what are the two big numbers on your watch mean? Is it distance in kilometers?