Bubbles CDT Day 5 (March 23, 2018)

We woke up extremely early for us (4:00 a.m.) and were out of camp by 5:00. We really want to start hiking in the morning before it is hot out. We got to the next water cache around 10:00 a.m. We hiked almost 13 miles and felt pretty good about ourselves. We sat in the shade and one of the shuttle drivers (Leslie who drove me) had driven down with her husband to check the water cache so we got to talk to them which was pretty cool.

We left after we ate, drank water, and rested our feet. We started hiking but didn’t want to do that many more miles. We wanted to get just a little bit closer to the next water cache.

As we began to hike again, it was so hot, and I began thinking, praying, and talking to myself that we could use some wind for the next part of this hike. For the next seven miles it was so windy that sometimes you had to lean into the wind to hike. I thought that was really funny, my prayers were answered to the extreme!

We got into camp and had a difficult time setting up the tent, however, Robby was a super star. He found rocks (after hunting for 30 minutes) and set the tent up properly in the wind. The ground is hard here so we couldn’t get the stakes in. The stakes that we got from Z Pack all bent and broke within our first couple days. It’s important to be lightweight but it’s also important to make sure that your gear works for you. Apparently we did not try our stakes in the super hard ground. We are going to need to figure something else out!

I thought for sure we were going to have to cowboy camp but Sprout is awesome and was like, no, we are setting the tent up! We got it up and are in it right now.

#robbyisabeast

Miles hiked: 20
Total miles hiked: 66