Awesome day climbing along tall ridges covered in Manzanita. Warm sun, cool shade. And a view of Mt. Shasta for the second day in a row, this time huge. We hike along it for most of the day...our view's angle changing. It was really beautiful. The trail was lined with huge volcanic rock formations. Black. Butterflies and deer. We saw a baby rattlesnake. By the end of the day, we had descended into the gully we're in now, but we were able to find a single ridge with a flat on it--a 28 mile day. It was funny because afterwe set up the tent, we discovered that the ridge was serving as the only trail for animals to reach the top of the mountain. Deer kept creeping sneaking by, ducking from our headlamps. I think a bear might have gone by too. Something that sounded like it walked on two legs. Making tons of noise. Smelled like a skunk. So it was either a bear or a skunk ape. Who knows...haha.

Tomorrow, we wake early and head for Dunsmuir before the heat hits and before we run out of food.

Love,
Dana