We walked to a trailhead at Barker Pass and got a hitch out with a day-hiking family and their dogs. They dropped us just off by a highway alongside Lake Tahoe, where a fellow hiker’s husband would be picking us up that afternoon.Dangermouse and I swam in the massive Lake Tahoe like free fishies and marveled that we had reached our section hike terminus.
Five weeks has passed so fast. I have built my readiness to leave yet I feel immensely sad and emotional. My cup runneth over with the “more-ness” of this hike: It was more demanding both mentally and physically than I anticipated, more fun, more grandiose, more stunning…and more difficult to accept as over. The finality of completing what was truly my dream hike is tough.
But I don’t think I’ve ever been more in awe of the wilderness.
Or more proud of us.
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