PCT day 55 - mile 1113 to mile 1141

"Life is a hospital where every patient is obsessed by changing beds. This one wants to suffer in front of a radiator and that one thinks he would get better by the window" Charles Baudelaire.

Good progress today, trail has been fairly cruisy although still covered in snow and very wet but overall it feels like the hardships of hiking in the high mountains are coming to an end.

Bear thank God did not make an appearance at night and my food was still hanging safely on a tree in the morning. I've seen a couple of bear turds on the path today though so there's definitely few of them in the area, the food bag goes back up hanging tonight as well.

I'm camping alongside Mama Troll and Lazarus I've met in Kennedy Meadows North, they are going to town tomorrow for a forced day off, the post office will be closed and they have stuff to pick up from there. I'm also pondering a shorter day as it's meant to be raining. We are staying above the remnants of a 1960s Winter Olympics Village, the only one that ever happened in California, now it's mostly transformed into a ski resort.

I'm starting to get a bit bored on trail (to be precise my brain does), it might be due to the fact that I hike alone (Tank Top is not too far behind and hopefully he will catch up soon). I began to download audiobooks, they are actually quite fun to listen to while hiking and they give my mind something to focus on. I've finished "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu today, next on the menu are: Alain de Botton's "The Art of Travel" and his "Consolation of Philosophy", Jack Kerouac's "On The Road", "Gnój" by Wojciech Kuczok, "Call of Cthulu" by H.P. Lovecraft and John Muir's "First Summer in the Sierra".

Hopefully it will keep me entertained and prevent from becoming braindead. I will be going next to town called Truckee tomorrow and I'm thinking about hitching down there, getting something to eat and going back on trail but if the weather is nasty it may change the plans.

The Nipple, Dick's Pass, Tinker Knob, those names definitely inject some humour into hiking:
Todays food variation, teriyaki noodles with salami:

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