Okay guys I have promised to keep it real with y'all
through this hike and last night was my worst night on the trail. It's raining
out it's chilly and the goal today is 16 miles.
Just, lesson learned.
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I thought oh I've braved the sub-zero temperatures and wind chill factor's
in January and I can handle anything so I decided to go to ultralight here.
Went with a 50 degree quilt...um...did not pack my rain gear I thought well if it rains
you know, my zpack covering here would be enough yeah I just packed stupid light
and paid for during the night I was freezing on my lawn I didn't is herbal
night's sleep I needed the duplex for the space
I needed my sleeping bag it's keeping warm and I needed my clothes
lesson learned guys never sacrifice weight for comfort as you'll pay all
night long unlikely the next day - first night on the trail just because of me
and my attempts that woodling got my week too far I'm Gus back up here and
yeah I could soon after this is Dan with intrepid and I ran into these two folks
you'll find it the next morning or accused me of losing it and I'm through
great because it takes all the greed I got to do this okay how many times is
y'all been hiking in back backpacker before this we've never backed back
before we started a McCulloch falls through this 30 pound pack on her backs
and her pack is as heavy as mine and I'm proud of her she can just get off the
couch and get out here guys another couple Rascals born of the same blood
never hike never camped and started it out cold inside to say let's see what
happens so there they go okay guys we made it to the top of this
climb and buddy just pointed out hurts left I
don't know if you can see it through the trees there but we're actually above a
fog in the clouds right now you can see the peaks kind of poking their head up
through the clouds there if you look real close I don't know what our
elevation is right now but we're up here okay guys it looks like we have reached
a gap yep we are at sequoia gap so far we've come 3.1 miles for the day we are
rocking along
and this in case you're wondering those sirens are not for me I did not do
anything wrong okay guys so we're here it's the KOA gap we were gonna keep
pressing onto Fontana damn our mileage was off and there's no way on earth we
can make it there today frankly you know my mistakes which I should not be making
at this point by bringing the wrong gear and with the weather that you guys see
out here I'm trying to be smart would rather arrive alive we're going to call
it quits for the day we've got a shuttle coming in to get a spec to be in a seat
we'll get back out here in a day or two made lots of little rookie mistakes here
that's alright you got a shuttle coming gonna regroup
and we'll head back out tomorrow or the next actually not smart but they after
okay guys this is Dan with a Shepherd head as you can tell my voice is gone
they've been a little bit sick this last row for one day I'm sorry I sound like a
mouse y'all never learn anything my name is Sequoia gap where we got off
of the trail today is gonna be a long day
we're shooting for 16 miles which will be the longest day yet is officially 742
a.m. I just gotta figure what's the worth that much myself this is a good
thing I thought I came out over there I did I came out there that's that's where
I came out at least I'm not gonna be going the wrong way now they have these
handy-dandy signs for confused people like me name is that way and Georgia is
that way and I am ready to rock and roll oh my god I sound like a mouse okay here
we go
all right Apple I said throat North that's what we want were heading that
way yeah guys this has got to be Jacob's Ladder if you can see behind me it's
just going straight up so I'm almost 100% sure this is Jacob's
Ladder I'm climbing right now
unless there's something on the other side this hill that's gonna surprise me
when I get to the top which would be out of the question at all because there are
a lot of false tops
guys if my calculations are correct we are at the top of Jacob's Ladder it
looks like there's a gentle downslope right in front of me so there hopefully
will be a chance to getting breath or two here this is the ant fermenter up at
the end and I'm on top of Jacob's Ladder whoever the hell Jacob is but I think he
needs to build a new ladder here we go
he also may know this section is a different pack now I had started with
the Osprey hey Godsey packs Ark zip and now I'm using a pelant a pack you know
it's a balancing act between weights and comfort and price and all of those
things but we'll get into that later but just was like you know for now I am
using the pelant a pack and if I can make that work I'm gonna do it the rest
of the trip but I'm not gonna sacrifice safety and I'm not gonna sacrifice too
much comfort okay so I just came up this very very very narrow path and I am at
the absolute peak of this mountain check out that view right there
so guys right now I am it's two minutes in full ten o'clock and I have a
conference call up here the middle of nowhere a lot of you to have for my on
the trail office I'm getting real hop on this call and head on back down the
trail towards Fontana today them but taking a quick timeout for some business
here
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