We had a wonderful morning.
Picked up a rental car. Headed to Roosevelt Marina and picked up our box.
Then we headed to Pine and dropped off the box so we could have a resupply.
Then we headed to Payson for our shuttle (and to drop off the car). We will hit the trail and head north.
This helps us around the heat wave’s worst weather (over 100 degrees) and keeps us hiking.
Some hikers we know are renting an AirB&B and waiting the weather out. But the heat wave is a week.
Hotels are really expensive right now. So would a flight home for a week be very expensive.
This keeps us hiking safely. Happy6 really thought this through well.
So we have loaded up water. Eaten a solid lunch and are returning to the trail after a wonderful sojourn with Mike and Ellen.
Such great people.
The shuttle dropped us off at a trailhead access a mile from 386.5 about 3:10 and we hiked until 6:00 and mile 391.9.
We hiked about 6.6 miles total for the day and set up camp.
Ate a very light dinner.
