Don’t worry about an alarm clock, the squirrels will let you know when you’ve slept long enough…

Yeah, so I did well helping P2P.  My energy levels stayed high enough to complete the task, but the morning of day 36 (September 14) was a bit of a sore one.  I ate a cold breakfast, packed up, and hiked down to see how P2P was holding up.  While hiking down the trail, I came up to… MORE MOOSE!!!

I am glad for my zoom when I took these pictures, there are actually three moose in this little area and one was a calf (still horse sized…).  While taking pictures, I saw a young hiker with her head down about to turn a corner and run right into the calf.  So I carefully hiked quickly to intercept her to warn her of the moose.  She was excited, but when I mentioned the closest one was only 20 yards away she was like “whoa, I never would have seen it”. Yeah, hike with your eyes open and your head up, that’s where the cool stuff is! Anyways, she stayed safe, took pictures, and I went on my way to visit with P2P.

 

P2P was bummed about her knee, but she had a beautiful camping spot.  She thanked me a number of times and I continued to hike.  I was excited to get to Silverton!