We were rained on last night which heralded a change in the weather.
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Then my three liter platypus burst (user error) and the caches were dry and the only water we found (finally on day two of our hike) was “water of desperation” — full of algae and smelling terrible.
As we got that slime filled water we were still twenty miles to a maintained cache and Happy6 was really over the “embrace the suck” or “embrace the brutality” part of the trail.
Not to mention the weather shift suddenly meant instead of a low of fifty degrees tonight it would be a low of twenty?!?
So I was willing to agree to Happy6 hitching. Which put us in the back of a pickup truck on the way to Rawlins. Then we got dropped off exactly where we walked north earlier this year.
Then back to the truck stop for breakfast.
Kind of neat how getting back we retraced the route we walked going north months ago.
Salt Lake tonight then grab luggage and decide where to go. We will get back to Heather’s eventually but not rushing it.
And we got to see Noodles at the Truck Stop. We met him in 2019 on the AT and saw him again when visiting Lady Di. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066679583080&mibextid=LQQJ4d
He is back from Antarctica and he and his girlfriend plan to return to Antarctica.
Great guy.