Due to the relentless bugs this morning, Danger and I broke camp and had breakfast in 30 minutes (our usual time is an hour and fifteen minutes) and started walking towards Lake Tahoe.We got to a road and waited for Gravy to catch up. About thirty minutes in to our hitch effort, Rocketman (a thru hiker whom Gravy knew who was taking time off the trail with family in Tahoe) rolled up in a BMW convertible. He gave me , Gravy, and Dangermouse a ride into South Lake Tahoe. With the top down and the wind making my bandana dance, I could not stop cheesing at Dangermouse.
Rocketman dropped us at an IHOP where we ate possibly the most built-up and satisfying meal I can recall ever eating.
We hit an outfitter for new socks to replace the holey and pathetic socks we were wearing to pieces and then the grocery to load up on veggies and chocolate. Since we only have a couple days left, we weren’t worried about food weight.We hitched with a motorcross rider in his truck to Highway 50, where we hopped out and chilled in some shade before hitching with a climber to the trailhead from the highway. We’ve had such incredible luck with getting on and off trail to get into towns.
I was back in the woods and happy hiking by 4:00 and we quickly arrived at Echo Lake - a beautiful recreational lake. Edging around the lake for a ways, we walked on a on a very rocky uphill. I twisted my foot on one rocky section from walking carelessly and probably too fast.
We are now in Desolation Wilderness, which everyone has said is very cool. Danger and I are going back and forth in conversation about ending our hike by getting off trail at Forest Route 3, thirty miles farther than that at Donner Pass, or maybe in between at Barker Pass.
We stopped to camp and eat on the rock shores of Aloha Lake, which was an almost unsettlingly beautiful sight. Still waters with stark trees popping up here and there from underwater. I went for an evening swim just off some of the rocks at sunset.
Happy. So very happy.
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